Renzo
Renzo was given to 148 boys in 2025, #1,313 among boys’ names; 2,690 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,540 Americans named Renzo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renzo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Renzo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Renzo is “a diminutive of the male given name Lorenzo, equivalent to English Larry, also used as a formal given name”
/ˈrenθo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Renzo?
#1,313 among boys’ names, 2025
Renzo rose from #1,947 in 2015 to #1,313 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 39.1 to 86.6 per million.
148 babies in 2024, the peak
Renzo peaked in 2024, when 148 boys were given it, #1,317 among boys’ names. The 148 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 148 | #1,313 | 86.6 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,317 | 85.9 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,335 | 83.6 |
| 2022 | 138 | #1,359 | 79.0 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,526 | 66.9 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,619 | 57.9 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,369 | 73.0 |
| 2018 | 93 | #1,700 | 51.2 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,166 | 34.0 |
| 2016 | 87 | #1,772 | 45.8 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #1,947 | 39.1 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,111 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,219 | 31.2 |
| 2012 | 52 | #2,440 | 27.4 |
| 2011 | 71 | #1,960 | 37.4 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,137 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,223 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,202 | 29.9 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,030 | 33.2 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,094 | 30.7 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,958 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,870 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,168 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,183 | 25.2 |
| 2001 | 46 | #2,234 | 23.7 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,886 | 28.5 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,443 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,909 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,335 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,416 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,404 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,734 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 23 | #3,009 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,275 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,591 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,736 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,767 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,661 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,533 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,401 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,181 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,237 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,077 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,083 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,794 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,088 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,804 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,610 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,084 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,973 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,342 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,800 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,283 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,885 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,042 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,947 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,973 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,856 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,857 | 2.8 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,046 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,836 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,524 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,432 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,109 | 5.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,343 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,789 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,747 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,799 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,171 | 8.2 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,162 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,074 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,078 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,892 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,332 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Renzo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renzo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renzo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renzo, and how old are they?
2,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,690 Americans ever recorded as Renzo. The median Renzo alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,129 people named Renzo (12 women and girls, 3,117 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 222 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 859 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,360 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Renzo born?
The states with the most babies named Renzo are California, Texas and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #858 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,123 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 14 | #998 | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #690 | 0.5× |
| New York | 8 | #1,378 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 7 | #739 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,249 | 0.1× |
| Nevada | 6 | #499 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,227 | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #861 | 0.1× |
Where Renzo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Renzo is most over-represented in Florida: since 1915 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Renzo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Renzo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Renzo and names like it
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renzo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Renzo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Renzo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Renzo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.