Reena
Feminine · “joy”
Reena is a name that at least three unrelated traditions arrive at. Hebrew Rina means joy and song; Sanskrit and Hindi Reena is in ordinary use; and in English it serves as a short form of Sabrina, Katrina and Irena. Its American peak is 1980, and the record carries all three without distinguishing them.
How old is the name Reena?
Reena first appears in US birth records in 1930 — 95 years ago. The typical Reena alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 2,200 people named Reena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Reena most popular?
Reena peaked in 1980, reaching #1310 nationally. Today it ranks #5917, 4,607 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
Lists built from the same records:
Where it comes from
From rinnah to Reena
The story of Reena
The -ina and -ena endings have been productive across Europe for centuries, and every long name in them generates a short form: Sabrina gives Rina, Katrina gives Trina and Rina, Irena gives Rena. That is one route to this spelling. The Hebrew Rina is a separate and genuinely old name, common in modern Israel. The Indian Reena is a third, and became widely used in the mid-twentieth century. American records from 1980 will contain all three and the birth data cannot separate them, which is a common situation for short vowel-framed names.
Meaningscholars disagree
'joy, song' in the Hebrew reading
Hebrew rinnah means a ringing cry, and in practice joy or joyful song — it appears in the Psalms for shouts of gladness. That is a genuine and settled etymology for Rina. The Indian Reena is usually treated as a variant of Rani, 'queen', or as an independent modern name; neither is documented. The English use as a clipping of longer -ina names supplies no meaning of its own. A given Reena may belong to any of the three.
How the name formed
- rinnah
- Rina
- Reena
Related forms: Rina · Reena · Rina · Rina
Pronouncing Reena
REE-nah
Two syllables, stress on the first, with a long e and an open final a. The ee spelling exists to make that vowel unambiguous, and it succeeds; there is no competing saying.
Nicknames for Reena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1930
- Most girls named
- 198097 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1310reached in 1980
- Change vs 2023
- +11.1%20 in 2025, from 18
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Reena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rina in Hebrew — related form
- Reena in Hindi — same name
- Rina in Italian — related form
- Rina in Dutch — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New Jersey.
Reenas among us
people named Reena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was named Reena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Reena
- #5917
- Reena on the 2025 chart
- #837
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Reena went to 20 girls in 2025, but Rena and Renna are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 123, which makes it the 837th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,080 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 13,067 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 80,363 for Reena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Wayne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Reena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Wayne climbed just as high around 1933, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Wayne's path sketches the road Reena is walking now.
Reena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Reena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Reena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The ee spelling removes all doubt about the vowel.
- It is short, soft and easy in English, Hebrew and Hindi alike.
- Sabrina, Katrina and Irena are all available as longer forms if one is wanted.
- Reena and Rina are the same name and hers will be written the other way.
- It is close to Rena, Rhina and Nina in sound.
- Having three unrelated origins means the meaning question needs a qualifier.
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Frequently asked
- How many Reenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Reena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Reena?
- Reena is one of 3 recorded spellings. Rena is the more common one — 75 births in 2025 against 20 for Reena.
- How popular is the name Reena in 2025?
- Reena ranks #5917 among US girl names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Reena?
- About 1 in every 80,363 US girls born in 2025 was named Reena — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Reena with classmates?
- Reena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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