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Renae

#3,287 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Renée

Renae has been given to 14,174 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #3,287 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 386 recorded.

Babies named Renae, 2025

1 in 69,100

Renae over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renae: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Renée

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renae means

Renae is a variant of Renée.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Renae → Renée → Renée → René. The family’s meaning is “reborn”, recorded in French with the source elements renātus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renée.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,141 girls were recorded with the name Renae between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 386 in 1970; its best national rank was #506 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,767 in 2020 to #3,287 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,204 in 2015 to #3,287 in 2025.

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Renae between 1955 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1963; its best national rank was #3,851 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Renae?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,287
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renae sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renae was born before 1973 — so the typical Renae is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,572
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (3,297).

Is Renae rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+396
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+480
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−83
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.4%
Peak was 1970 (386)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#506
1962

Spellings of Renae

Renae is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 30.2% against Renae's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Renae is used

Across 1910–2025, Renae was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 1,111 girls, against 1 in 15,110 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

090 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 1,111
  2. 2South Dakota1 in 1,887
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 2,941
  4. 4Iowa1 in 3,704
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 4,348
  6. 6Idaho1 in 5,000
  7. 7Utah1 in 5,263
  8. 8Michigan1 in 6,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Renae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renae around the world

Where Renae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #845
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #798
    in 2016
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2012
    #871
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    1975–1979
    #88
    in 1979

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Renae

People whose public names include Renae, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Renae by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,287
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 480
Best rank ever
#506
1962
Peak year
1970
386 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,141
Count in 2025
48

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,851
1966
Peak year
1963
6 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renae

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

RenataReneaReneJanaeRenaDanaeRennaReneeRenitaJenaeLanaeRennaeDenaeMonaeRenleyRenayShanaeRennieLynaeRendaJonaeRenadRenleeRenesmee

Names with a curve like Renae

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Renae, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KimberleeDeenaCarynDeidreLeeannTamraKarynLeannJannaJanellValarieAnnemarie

Sibling names for Renae

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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