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Renell vs Renita

American parents have registered 7,398 Renitas since 1880, against 707 Renells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Renell against Renita, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Renell Renita

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 79 years in which either name was published, Renita for 76 years and Renell for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Renell Renita
Total US births 7077,398
Most in one year 30314
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 6106,600
Median age today 5756
Peak year 19651960
Best rank 2,154th girls550th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19241925
Girls / boys 553 / 1547,398 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Renell Renita
England and Wales 623

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: Renell and Renita.