Renata
Nearly 187,000 Polish women carry it, but it barely reaches newborns now: just 11 girls last year. Latin at root, from a word meaning "reborn".
Renata Pronunciation
Renata is pronounced re-NAH-tah (/rɛˈnata/).
What Renata means
Where Renata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Renata comes from Latin. Behind it sits renatus, built from re-, "again," and natus, "born," which gives the plain sense: reborn. In early Christian use the word carried the idea of baptism, a second birth into faith, and the name traveled into Italian and French as Renata and Renée.
One real bearer anchors it. Renée of France, born in 1510, daughter of King Louis XII, became Duchess of Ferrara and sheltered Protestant thinkers at her court. Her Italian subjects called her Renata.
The short form in Polish is Rena, easy to call across a schoolyard. When a teacher reads the class register and reaches Renata, the three syllables settle quickly, and Rena does the rest of the work at recess. The Polish meaning, odrodzona, keeps the Latin promise intact: born again.
When Renata celebrates name day
Renata appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 12 November.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Renata
1 in 121 women in Poland is named Renata. 186,859 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #71 among female names.
Renata's popularity over time
11 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #673 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #71 name among living women, even as it slips to #673 among newborns.
Where Renata is most popular
Renata is most popular in Silesian, 192% above the national average (16 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+128%) and Lublin (+62%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Pomeranian, 47% and 44% below average respectively.
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Silesian16 girls born+192%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 girls born+128%
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Lublin4 girls born+62%
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Lesser Poland8 girls born+47%
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Greater Poland6 girls born+16%
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Masovian6 girls born−30%
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Łódź2 girls born−34%
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Pomeranian2 girls born−44%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born−47%
Renata as a middle name
Renata is a first name for 186,859 women in Poland and a middle name for another 58,366, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 47th, between Kinga (59,349) and Wanda (56,675).
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#45 Patrycja62,344
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#46 Kinga59,349
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#47 Renata58,366
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#48 Wanda56,675
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#49 Łucja53,469