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Renan

#6,073 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Renan has been given to 407 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #6,073 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Renan, 2025

1 in 221,000

Renan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renan means

Renan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Renan is used in Portuguese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Renan is pronounced /ʁeˈnɐ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 407 boys were recorded with the name Renan between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,143 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,579 in 2020 to #6,073 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,384 in 2015 to #6,073 in 2025.

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 Renan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,073
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renan was born before 2005 — so the typical Renan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
407
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2010s — 24.1% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Renan 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
+2,113
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,506
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,311
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.88×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2000 (18)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,143
1984

Spellings of Renan

Renan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 38.9% against Renan'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 Renan is used

Across 1910–2025, Renan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,025,453 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Renan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renan around the world

Where Renan 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
    2009–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1903–2025
    #6,492
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1991–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Renan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,073
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,506
Best rank ever
#4,143
1984
Peak year
2000
18 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
407
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Renan

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

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Sibling names for Renan

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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