Renna
Feminine
Renna is a short name that several longer ones could have produced. Renata, Serena, Irene and Rowena all contain it, and nineteenth-century American families were in the habit of writing down the syllable a daughter was actually called rather than the name she was christened with.
How old is the name Renna?
Renna first appears in US birth records in 1884 — 141 years ago. The typical Renna alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 1,200 people named Renna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Renna most popular?
Renna peaked in 1884, reaching #1024 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 3,734 places below that high. See the whole 1884 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Renna
Short names of this kind were made in the household, not in the church register, and they became register names when a generation of American parents stopped seeing the difference. Renna and Rena appear steadily in nineteenth-century records alongside Ada, Etta and Ora, sometimes as clippings of a longer name and sometimes given outright. The doubled n is the commoner spelling of the two and follows Anna and Jenna. The whole set went quiet after the First World War and is only now being looked at again.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Which parent applies is not recoverable. Renata is Latin for reborn; Serena is Latin for calm; Irene is Greek for peace; Rowena's own origin is disputed. Each of them has been clipped to Rena or Renna in English-speaking households, and the record does not say which produced any given child's name.
Pronouncing Renna
REN-uh
Two syllables, stress in front, the first rhyming with when. Some families say REE-nuh, on the Rena pattern, and the doubled n is what argues against it.
Nicknames for Renna
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
- 1884
- Most girls named
- 202342 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1024reached in 1884
- Change vs 2023
- −33.3%28 in 2025, from 42
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.
Renna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Renata in Italian — related form
- Rena in Hebrew — spelling variant
- Rena in Japanese — spelling variant
Rennas among us
people named Renna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Renna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Renna
- #4758
- Renna on the 2025 chart
- #837
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Renna went to 28 girls in 2025, but Rena and Reena 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 — 3,921 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 13,067 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Renna 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
Fashion outlook
Renna 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 Renna is headed
Renna 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.
Renna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Renna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables and five letters: easy to write and easy to call.
- Ren works as a modern short form and reads as current rather than old.
- It has a documented record in American use going back to the nineteenth century.
- Rena, Renna and Renae are close enough to be swapped constantly.
- The doubled n is the only thing fixing the pronunciation, and it does not always hold.
- It is a name without a settled parent, so its meaning depends on which one a family claims.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rennas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Renna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Renna?
- Renna is one of 3 recorded spellings. Rena is the more common one — 75 births in 2025 against 28 for Renna.
- How popular is the name Renna in 2025?
- Renna ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Renna?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Renna — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Renna with classmates?
- Renna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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