Rena

Where Rena comes from

Rena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #173 among girls — 74 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #153
    148 babies named Rena — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    Rena Owen born
    New Zealand actress
  4. 1968
    Rena Sofer born
    American actress
  5. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,638.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rena Sofer · American actress, born 1968
  • Rena Owen · New Zealand actress, born 1962
  • Rena Matsui · Japanese actor, novelist and YouTuber, born 1991
  • Rena Nōnen · Japanese actress and singer, born 1993
  • Rena Riffel · American actress, 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.