Rena

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Rena: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Rena: Recorded since 1965, its highest recorded position is #385, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#385highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2152
1998	#2701
1999	#2189
2000	#1688
2001	#2466
2003	#3099
2004	#2802
2005	#2438
2006	#3116
2007	#3667
2008	#3397
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2012	#5876
2015	#3615
2018	#5666
2019	#2869
2020	#3899
2021	#3961
2022	#4645
2023	#2927
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 17 of the 55 years from 1965 to 2019.

In 2019: #716 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2869 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1965–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #385 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1965–2019
Highest recorded position: #385 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1965 (recorded 1965–2019).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Rena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 22 ranked years and 132 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1965.

Rena across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Rena's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#385 (1965)	#385 (1965)	#716 (2019)	17 of 55	62 (1965–2019)	6 (1982)
England and Wales · Girls	#2152 (1997)	#1688 (2000)	#2411 (2024)	22 of 28	132 (1997–2024)	11 (2024)

Rena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Rena in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000s	56	9 of 10	6
2010s	24	5 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	33	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Rena appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #385 in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

Rena's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#399	6	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#432	5	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#406	5	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#396	4	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1965 and 2024, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #385, first reached in 1965.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 32 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Remy · #70, 55y
Ren · #404, 21y
Renad · #2392, 18y
Renae · #83, 34y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Inez · #385, 32y
Stefanie · #386, 33y
Agatha · #380, 33y
Rosina · #380, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Gine · #385, 22y
Inez · #385, 32y
Meriel · #385, 16y
Une · #385, 32y

Rena was ranked #385 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1965. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Rena and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Rena without appearing here.

Rena moved ahead of

Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Geraldine Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Rena

Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3615 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1711.
Ezra Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4688 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #5876 and #2969.
Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3116 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #4564 and #2326.
Amalie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2466 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #3099 and #965.

Moved the opposite way to Rena

Alexandra Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 while Alexandra went from #227 to #88.
Alice Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 while Alice went from #60 to #35.
Amelia Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 while Amelia went from #325 to #6.
Amy Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 while Amy went from #262 to #63.

Moved the same way as Rena

Alma Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 and Alma from #262 to #502.
Amanda Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 and Amanda from #129 to #313.
Angela Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 and Angela from #21 to #551.
Ann Compare
Between 1965 and 2019 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Rena went from #385 to #716 and Ann from #5 to #362.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #385 in Republic of Ireland in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Rena

Rena at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Rena across 2 official records

Rena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rena appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Rena moved ahead of

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Rena at a glance

Rena across 2 official records

Rena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Rena appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Rena

Rena and the names beside it

Rena moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Rena

Moved the opposite way to Rena

Moved the same way as Rena