# Rena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rena/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 39,247 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 123 / 39,124 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 136, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 67 | 2,659 |
| 2012 | 75 | 2,470 |
| 2013 | 61 | 2,832 |
| 2014 | 82 | 2,287 |
| 2015 | 65 | 2,732 |
| 2016 | 68 | 2,613 |
| 2017 | 80 | 2,315 |
| 2018 | 89 | 2,142 |
| 2019 | 65 | 2,674 |
| 2020 | 100 | 1,921 |
| 2021 | 77 | 2,362 |
| 2022 | 74 | 2,461 |
| 2023 | 96 | 2,045 |
| 2024 | 65 | 2,688 |
| 2025 | 75 | 2,402 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 7 | 3,223 |
| 1940 | 8 | 2,826 |
| 1945 | 5 | 3,681 |
| 1953 | 7 | 3,367 |
| 1956 | 5 | 4,355 |
| 1958 | 6 | 3,854 |
| 1959 | 7 | 3,531 |
| 1960 | 11 | 2,656 |
| 1961 | 5 | 4,533 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,851 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,800 |
| 1976 | 6 | 5,461 |
| 1982 | 5 | 7,136 |
| 1984 | 5 | 7,086 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,906 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | 3,116 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,667 |
| 2008 | 6 | 3,397 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,869 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,411 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Rena

- Rena Sofer, American actress
- Rena Riffel, American actress
- Rena Effendi, Azerbaijani photographer
- Rena Niehaus, German film actress
- Rena Inoue, figure skater
- Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist (1871–1953)
- Sable, American professional wrestler, model and actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.