Renata vs Rennie

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Renata Rennie

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

Of the 128 years in which either name was published, Renata for 81 years and Rennie for 47 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1880–1905 Rennie ahead
• 1907 Renata ahead
• 1908–1910 Rennie ahead
• 1911 Renata ahead
• 1913–1915 Rennie ahead
• 1916–1918 Renata ahead
• 1919–1922 Rennie ahead
• 1923 Renata ahead
• 1924–1931 Rennie ahead
• 1932–1933 Renata ahead
• 1934–1952 Rennie ahead
• 1953–2025 Renata ahead

Side by side

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 Rennies alive today are over 60; half the Renatas are over 11. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

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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