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Renata vs Renoda

American parents have registered 14,616 Renatas since 1880, against 26 Renodas. Renata is still ahead, with 635 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Renata Renoda

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 1982, when Renata had 146 and Renoda had 6.

Side by side

  Renata Renoda
Total US births 14,61626
Most in one year 72615
Babies in 2025 635under 5
Estimated living today 14,00030
Median age today 1145
Peak year 19801980
Best rank 336th girls4,743rd girls
Rank in 2025 481stunranked
First recorded 19001980
Girls / boys 14,610 / 626 / 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 Renodas alive today are over 45; half the Renatas are over 11. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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