Renata
Top 1000
About Renata
Widely used across Europe as a common baptismal name symbolizing spiritual rebirth, Renata, in this country it has an operatic image via Italian-born divas Renata Tebadi and Renata Scotti.
Renata is back in the U.S. Top 1000 after decades away; she has a larger following in other countries.
Writer/critic Renata Adler was a star among the literati. And Renata is a minor vampire character in the Twilight series.
For those of you thinking nicknames, Renata might be a full name leading to the increasingly trendy "Wren".
Pronounced ruh-NAH-tuh.
As of October 2026, Renata ranked #481 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #336 in 1980, Nameberry popularity #528.
Editor's take: The name Renata is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "reborn".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #659 | 435 | 243.5 |
| 2015 | #637 | 447 | 250.4 |
| 2016 | #544 | 576 | 325.1 |
| 2017 | #461 | 685 | 396.8 |
| 2018 | #506 | 613 | 360.4 |
| 2019 | #487 | 645 | 384.3 |
| 2020 | #507 | 600 | 371.2 |
| 2021 | #533 | 581 | 354.1 |
| 2022 | #492 | 640 | 390.2 |
| 2023 | #472 | 653 | 407 |
| 2024 | #517 | 594 | 366.6 |
| 2025 | #481 | 635 | 395.1 |
World rankings
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Renata on lists
Famous Renatas
- Renata Scotto
Italian opera singer
- Renata Tebaldi
Italian opera singer
- Renata Adler
American author
- Renata Litvinova
Russian actress
- Renata Chlumska
Swedish adventurer and mountaineer
- Renata Fast
Canadian ice hockey player
Renata in pop culture
- Renata
minor character in the Twilight Saga
- Renata
Linguini's mother in Pixar's "Ratatouille"
- Renata
the Contessa loved by Col. Richard Cantrell in Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees (1950; "a book left unpraised even by the author's more enthusiastic critics")
- Renata
a character in the "Isabelle" series by Laurence Yep
- Renata López
a character in the "Una Familia de Diez" series
- Renata
character of Her Interactive's Nancy Drew game "The Captive Curse"
- Renata Klein
character in book and TV series "Big Little Lies"
- Renata Remedios “Meme” Buendía
Character from 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez