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Renada vs Renata

American parents have registered 14,616 Renatas since 1880, against 710 Renadas. Renata is still ahead, with 635 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Renada against Renata, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Renada Renata

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Renata has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Renada had 96 and Renata had 224.

Side by side

  Renada Renata
Total US births 71014,616
Most in one year 240726
Babies in 2025 under 5635
Estimated living today 67014,000
Median age today 4511
Peak year 19801980
Best rank 708th girls336th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked481st
First recorded 19561900
Girls / boys 710 / 014,610 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Renadas alive today are over 45; half the Renatas are over 11. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Renada and Renata.