Renda
Feminine
Renda belongs to a family of women's names ending in -nda, and a surprising number of them were made up by writers. Brenda came out of a novel, Glenda out of Welsh, Linda out of an argument nobody has settled, and none of them is as old as they sound.
How old is the name Renda?
Renda first appears in US birth records in 1905 — 120 years ago. The typical Renda alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 1,000 people named Renda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Renda most popular?
Renda peaked in 1955, reaching #1303 nationally. See the whole 1955 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Renda
Walter Scott invented Brenda for a novel set in Shetland, taking it from the Norse-sounding material he was surrounded by there, and it went into general use within a generation and has never been out of it. That is a pattern rather than an exception: a novelist needs a name that sounds as though it belongs to a place, invents one, and the invention outlives the book by two centuries. The ending then detaches and becomes available, which is how a family of names grows around a single made word. Linda arrived by a different route and its origin is genuinely disputed, with Germanic, Spanish and Italian accounts all in circulation. Renda sits inside that family with no story of its own, which is not a failing; most of its neighbors have borrowed theirs.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source and no meaning. The name is likeliest a build on the ending shared with Brenda and Glenda, or a shortening of a longer name in that family. Italian and Portuguese have a word spelled the same way, meaning income or yield, and there is no reason to think it is connected.
Pronouncing Renda
REN-duh
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The nd cluster sits across the syllable break, which is where English allows it; the final vowel is reduced to nothing.
Nicknames for Renda
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
- 1905
- Most girls named
- 195560 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1303reached in 1955
- Change vs 1990
- 0.0%5 in 1996, from 5
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.
Rendas among us
people named Renda are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Renda sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Short, firm and easy to spell, with nothing silent or ambiguous in it.
- Ren is a current, unisex, entirely modern short form.
- It is genuinely uncommon while sounding like a name that has always existed.
- It will be heard as Brenda and Rhonda, both of which are far commoner.
- There is no meaning to give a child who asks.
- It is strongly dated to the middle of the last century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rendas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Renda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Renda in 2025?
- Renda is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Renda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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