Renel
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Renel has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1992, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Renel, 2002
1 in 534,000
Renel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Renel over time
In 2002, Renel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Renel?
Renel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 534,000
- 7 of 3,737,275 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 277,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 370,070 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Renel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 370,070 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Renels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Renel was born before 1988 — so the typical Renel is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 58.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 62
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 58.1% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Renel 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 1992 (9)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.6% average annual change
Spellings of Renel
Renel is not the most common spelling — Gene is, with 38.4% against Renel'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 Renel is used
Across 1910–2025, Renel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,363 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 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. Renel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Renel around the world
Where Renel 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 & Wales2012–2015#4,747in 2015
- France1924–1946#751in 1946
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Renel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Renel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Renel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.