Renata

Where Renata comes from

Feminine form of Latin saint's name Renatus, from renatus (“reborn”)
— Wiktionary's entry for Renata
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,932 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Renata Tebaldi born
    Italian opera singer
  3. 1933
    Renata Scotto born
    Italian soprano, opera director
  4. 1980
    Peak, #336
    720 babies named Renata — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #735.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Renata Scotto · Italian soprano, opera director, 1933–2023
  • Renata Tebaldi · Italian opera singer, 1922–2004
  • Renata Litvinova · Russian actress, film director and screenwriter, born 1967
  • Renata Voráčová · Czech female tennis player, born 1983
  • Renata Mauer · Polish sport shooter, born 1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.