Renita
Renita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 553rd, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1960313 births
- Best rank
- #553in 1960
- Since 1925
- 7,398people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,398 girls have been named Renita in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 313 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 313 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Renita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | |
| 1930s | 38 | |
| 1940s | 119 | |
| 1950s | 1,585 | |
| 1960s | 2,399 | |
| 1970s | 1,504 | |
| 1980s | 1,233 | |
| 1990s | 375 | |
| 2000s | 108 | |
| 2010s | 30 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Renita was the 553rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Renita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tamrapeak 1959
- Terisapeak 1968
- Jackipeak 1961
- Sheriepeak 1957
- Reneepeak 1962
- Danitapeak 1961
- Juliepeak 1958
- Nilsapeak 1960
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.