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Renata vs Renzo

American parents have registered 14,616 Renatas since 1880, against 2,690 Renzos. Renata is still ahead, with 635 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Renata Renzo

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

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Renata for 110 years and Renzo for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Renata Renzo
Total US births 14,6162,690
Most in one year 726148
Babies in 2025 635148
Estimated living today 14,0002,500
Median age today 1111
Peak year 19802024
Best rank 336th girls1,314th boys
Rank in 2025 481st1,310th
First recorded 19001915
Girls / boys 14,610 / 60 / 2,690

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Renata Renzo
France 490720
England and Wales 206433
Ireland 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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