# Renita (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/renita/  
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 | 7,398 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 7,398 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 13 | 7,940 |
| 2001 | 14 | 7,651 |
| 2002 | 10 | 10,079 |
| 2003 | 11 | 9,558 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,201 |
| 2005 | 11 | 9,980 |
| 2006 | 13 | 9,161 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13,650 |
| 2008 | 14 | 8,871 |
| 2009 | 9 | 12,237 |
| 2010 | 5 | 19,227 |
| 2011 | 7 | 14,522 |
| 2012 | 5 | 18,967 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,295 |
| 2019 | 8 | 12,215 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |

## 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.