Renata
Feminine · “born again”
Renata is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 14,610 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Renata comes straight out of Latin, from renatus — "born again" — a word early Christians used for what happened at baptism. It has kept that shape almost unchanged for centuries, and today the same six letters work in Italian, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. Three even syllables, a soft landing: reh-NAH-tah.
How old is the name Renata?
Renata first appears in US birth records in 1900 — 125 years ago. The typical Renata is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 14,000 people named Renata are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Renata most popular?
Renata peaked in 1980, reaching #336 nationally. Today it ranks #481, 145 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Renatus to Renata
The story of Renata
The name begins as a Latin word rather than a Latin story: renatus, "born again," adopted as a personal name by Christians in late antiquity for whom rebirth meant baptism. Renata is its feminine form, and it settled early in Italy and then spread through Catholic Europe — Poland, Bohemia, the German lands, Spain and Portugal, Lithuania — usually with the spelling intact. French took the same root down a slightly different road, giving René for men and Renée for women. In the United States it has arrived by more than one route, including Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking families for whom the spelling and the sound need no explaining.
Meaning
born again, reborn
From Latin renatus, the past participle of renasci, "to be born again" — the feminine of Renatus.
How the name formed
- Renatus
- Renata
- Renée
- Renate
Related forms: Renata · Renata · Renata · Renáta · Renée · Renate
Pronouncing Renata
reh-NAH-tah
Stress on the middle syllable, with an open ah. English speakers sometimes flatten the ending to reh-NAH-tuh, and a few reach for ruh-NAY-tah; a single correction usually settles it.
Nicknames for Renata
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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
- 1900
- Most girls named
- 2023653 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #336reached in 1980
- Change vs 2023
- −2.8%635 in 2025, from 653
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.
Renata in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Renata in Italian — same name
- Renata in Spanish / Portuguese — same name
- Renata in Polish — same name
- Renáta in Czech / Hungarian — spelling variant
- Renée in French — related form
- Renate in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Renatas among us
people named Renata are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,531 born in 2025 was named Renata
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Theda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Renata's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Theda climbed just as high around 1919, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Theda's path sketches the road Renata is walking now.
Renata 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
Where Renata is headed
Renata should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Renata beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Renata in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the same way in Italian, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese, so it crosses languages without adjustment.
- The meaning is transparent and documented — Latin renatus, "born again" — with no competing readings.
- Phonetic spelling: every letter is pronounced, and there is only one accepted way to write it.
- Several long-established short forms, from Rena to Renia, rather than none at all.
- A continuous record from late antiquity onward, so it has never had to be revived from scratch.
- English speakers may hesitate between reh-NAH-tah and ruh-NAY-tah, and Renata is easily heard as Renate or Renee over the phone. Nothing that a repeat won't fix, but expect the repeat.
- The "born again" sense is genuinely baptismal in origin, and some listeners will hear a specifically religious note in it. Others will hear only a Latin name.
- Familiar in sound but uncommon in practice: your daughter is unlikely to share it with a classmate, which some families want and others find isolating.
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Frequently asked
- How many Renatas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 14,000 people named Renata are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Renata in 2025?
- Renata ranks #481 among US girl names in 2025, with 635 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Renata?
- About 1 in every 2,531 US girls born in 2025 was named Renata — 635 in all.
- Will my child share the name Renata with classmates?
- Renata will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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