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Renaud

Boys' name

Form of Reynold

Renaud has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1987, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Renaud, 2017

1 in 596,000

Renaud over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renaud: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Reynold

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renaud means

Renaud is a form of Reynold.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Renaud is used in French and Carolingian Cycle.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʁə.no/ for Renaud.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Renaud → Reynold → *Raginawaldaz. The family’s meaning is “decision, advice, counsel + ruler”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements raginą and waldaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Renaud is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Reynold.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Renaud is pronounced /ʁə.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 boys were recorded with the name Renaud between 1921 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1987; its best national rank was #3,892 in 1957.

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 Renaud?

Renaud had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renaud 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renaud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renauds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renaud was born before 1985 — so the typical Renaud is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Renaud 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 1987 (10)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,892
1957

Spellings of Renaud

Renaud is not the most common spelling — Ronald is, with 97.8% against Renaud's <0.01%.

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.

Renaud around the world

Where Renaud 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.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #4,378
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #655
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Renaud 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
#3,892
1957
Peak year
1987
10 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renaud

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

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Sibling names for Renaud

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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