Rena
Rena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 64 births. Its best rank was 153rd, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 640.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1962575 births
- Best rank
- #153in 1885
- Since 1880
- 39,048people given the name
The story in the numbers
39,048 girls have been named Rena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 575 births.
The name has all but left use: 64 births in 2024, against 575 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Rena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,219 | |
| 1890s | 1,945 | |
| 1900s | 2,117 | |
| 1910s | 4,174 | |
| 1920s | 4,737 | |
| 1930s | 3,365 | |
| 1940s | 3,577 | |
| 1950s | 4,430 | |
| 1960s | 4,719 | |
| 1970s | 2,917 | |
| 1980s | 2,313 | |
| 1990s | 1,267 | |
| 2000s | 1,105 | |
| 2010s | 752 | |
| 2020s | 411 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Rena was the 400th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Rena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosapeak 1925
- Melvinapeak 1920
- Bertapeak 1926
- Lonapeak 1918
- Ledapeak 1920
- Celiapeak 1915
- Lavinapeak 1920
- Roxiepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.