Renald
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Renald has been given to 518 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1924, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Renald, 2007
1 in 666,000
Renald over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Renald?
Renald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 666,000
- 6 of 3,997,748 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 346,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 461,839 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Renald sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Renalds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Renald was born before 1946 — so the typical Renald is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 18.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 232
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (96).
Is Renald 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1924 (17)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Renald
Renald is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 44.9% against Renald's 0.02%.
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 Renald is used
Across 1910–2025, Renald was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 313,167 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Renald has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Renald around the world
Where Renald 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.
- France1933–2007#5,668in 2007
- South Australia1953–1953#334in 1953
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Renald by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Renald
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Renald
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.