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Rena

American  
[ree-nuh] / ˈri nə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Marina.


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Rena Wong, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663 in Minnesota, said some union members have expressed alarm after workers were seized in parking lots where they work.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Other winners include 20-year-old Rena Kawasaki of Japan, who at age 14 co-founded a group connecting students and politicians through Zoom sessions to boost youth participation in politics.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

“These parents aren’t sending their kids to school,” said Rena Whiteman, an advocate with the Colville Confederated Tribes’ Youth Development Program, which works to improve attendance among Native students.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024

And Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, sitting beside her daughter, Rena, who recently married, said she still remembered her as a little girl “in pigtails.”

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2023

And, somehow, Dad passed along to us the illusion that placid old Rena was a taunt ship.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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