This paper is devoted to study the following strongly nonlinear elliptic problem \(\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} - \sum _{i=1}^{N} D^{i}a_{i}(x, u, \nabla u)+ g(x,u,\nabla u)=f & \quad \text{ in } \Omega , \\ u=0 & \quad \text{ on } \partial \Omega , \end{array}\right. \end{aligned}\) in a suitable anisotropic Sobolev space, where \(f \in L^{1}(\Omega )\) and the lower order term \(g(x,s,\xi )\) satisfies some singular growth condition. We show the existence of renormalized solutions for this elliptic equation. Moreover, we will provide some regularity results.