Rena
Rena reached its high-water mark in 1962 at number 400, and has been recorded 39,247 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,387th. About 19,000 Renas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 39,247
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 400th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,387th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 39,124 / 123
How old the living Renas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 39,247 babies given the name since 1880, about 19,000 are alive — 49 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 7,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Renas
- Rena Sofer (born 1968)American actress
- Rena Owen (born 1962)New Zealand actress
- Rena Nōnen (born 1993)Japanese actress and singer
- Rena Matsui (born 1991)Japanese actor, novelist and YouTuber
- Rena Riffel (born 1969)American actress
- Rena Effendi (born 1977)Azerbaijani photographer
- Rena Katō (born 1997)Japanese idol and member of idol group AKB48
- Rena Tanaka (born 1980)Japanese actress
People named Rena with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rena is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rena is most concentrated in Maine (3.7×), Louisiana (2.5×), South Carolina (2.1×), Mississippi (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular girls’ names the year Rena peaked:
Rena elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Rena | 136 | 2,411th |
| Ireland girls | Rena | 62 | 399th |
| France girls | Rena | 45 | 7,294th |
| Scotland girls | Rena | 3 | 510th |
| Poland girls | Rena | 2 birth registrations | 616th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rena among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Rena | 12 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Rena against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.