Renatta
Feminine · “reborn”
Renatta doubles the t in Renata, and the Latin means reborn — it was a baptismal name before it was anything else.
How old is the name Renatta?
Renatta first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Renatta is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Renatta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Renatta most popular?
Renatta peaked in 1980, reaching #2154 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 2,392 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Renatta
Ours, offered as ours. Nasci, to be born, produced an extraordinary spread of English words: nation is a people by birth, nature is what a thing is born as, native and innate and naive all descend from it, and Renaissance is the same rebirth as Renata. A single Latin verb about being born underlies a large part of how English talks about identity, character and history. The name is the plainest form of it.
Meaning
reborn
From Latin renatus, born again, from re- and nasci, to be born; the feminine renata was given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth. The same root gives nation, nature, native and Renaissance.
Pronouncing Renatta
reh-NAH-tah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Renatta and Renata are said identically.
Nicknames for Renatta
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
- 1959
- Most girls named
- 198047 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2154reached in 1980
- Change vs 2024
- +50.0%30 in 2025, from 20
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.
Renatta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Renata in Italian — spelling variant
- Renata in Spanish — same name
- Renée in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Renattas among us
people named Renatta are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Renatta
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Renatta
- #4546
- Renatta on the 2025 chart
- #427
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Renatta went to 30 girls in 2025, but Renata is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 665, which makes it the 427th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,119 places above the chart.
- Renata635
- Renatta30
About 1 girl in 2,417 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Renatta 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 Renell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Renatta's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Renell climbed just as high around 1965, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Renell's path sketches the road Renatta is walking now.
Renatta 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 Renatta is headed
Renatta should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Renatta beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Renatta in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a genuinely far-reaching Latin root.
- Rena and Nata are both ready short forms.
- Every vowel is sounded, so it reads correctly in most languages.
- Renata is the standard spelling and much more common.
- The doubled t is invisible aloud and will be dropped constantly.
- The meaning is explicitly a baptismal one, which carries weight in some settings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Renattas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Renatta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Renatta?
- Renatta is one of 2 recorded spellings. Renata is the more common one — 635 births in 2025 against 30 for Renatta.
- How popular is the name Renatta in 2025?
- Renatta ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Renatta?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Renatta — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Renatta with classmates?
- Renatta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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