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Renetta

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Renetta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
196256 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1910
1,573people given the name
Babies named Renetta, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,573 girls have been named Renetta in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 56 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 26%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Renetta
1910s56
1920s125
1930s81
1940s128
1950s299
1960s411
1970s271
1980s173
1990s29

In 1962, its biggest year

Renetta was outside the top 1,000 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 Renetta

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.