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Renada vs Renae

American parents have registered 14,174 Renaes since 1880, against 710 Renadas. Renae is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Renada against Renae, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Renada Renae

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Renae has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1925 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Renada had 240 and Renae had 310.

Side by side

  Renada Renae
Total US births 71014,174
Most in one year 240386
Babies in 2025 under 548
Estimated living today 67013,000
Median age today 4550
Peak year 19801970
Best rank 708th girls508th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,249th
First recorded 19561925
Girls / boys 710 / 014,141 / 33

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Renaes alive today are over 50; half the Renadas are over 45. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Renada and Renae.