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Renard

Boys' name

Form of Reynard

Renard has been given to 2,690 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1970, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Renard, 2024

1 in 418,000

Renard over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renard: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Reynard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renard means

Renard is a form of Reynard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Renard is used in French (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʁə.naʁ/ for Renard.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Renard → Reynard. The family’s meaning is “fox”, recorded in English with the source elements renard.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reynard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,690 boys were recorded with the name Renard between 1910 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1970; its best national rank was #956 in 1965.

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 Renard?

Renard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renard 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renards were born

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

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,470
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Choose a decade

1960s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (500).

Is Renard 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 1970 (63)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#956
1965

Spellings of Renard

Renard is not the most common spelling — Ronald is, with 64.3% against Renard's 0.16%.

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 Renard is used

Across 1910–2025, Renard was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 124,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 50,000
  5. 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Renard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renard around the world

Where Renard 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.

  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Renard in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Renard. Linked forms have their own page here.

ReinardRenardoReynard

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Renard by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#956
1965
Peak year
1970
63 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,690
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renard

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

RenatoRenzoRenaldoReneeRennerEduardEdgardRenoKennardRashardRennardRennyRenleyRennieRenShepardLenardRenlyHaywardRenanBallardRentonRenaldGirard

Names with a curve like Renard

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

TeranceBrienKerwinMichaleAnthoneyKevanReginalMickyBrittRojelioDonellRance

Sibling names for Renard

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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