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Renata vs Renesmee

American parents have registered 14,616 Renatas since 1880, against 2,068 Renesmees. Renata is still ahead, with 635 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Renata against Renesmee, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Renata Renesmee

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

Renata has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Renata had 350 and Renesmee had 135.

Side by side

  Renata Renesmee
Total US births 14,6162,068
Most in one year 726175
Babies in 2025 635138
Estimated living today 14,0002,100
Median age today 116
Peak year 19802024
Best rank 336th girls1,314th girls
Rank in 2025 481st1,534th
First recorded 19002009
Girls / boys 14,610 / 62,068 / 0

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 Renatas alive today are over 11; half the Renesmees are over 6. 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Renata Renesmee
Poland 7892
England and Wales 206460
Italy 425231
France 49055 Renesmée
Ireland 33

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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