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Renesmee

#1,538 in 2025Girls' name

Blend of Renée and Esme

Renesmee has been given to 2,068 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #1,538 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 175 recorded.

Babies named Renesmee, 2025

1 in 24,000

Renesmee over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renesmee: meaning, origin, and history

Blend of Renée and Esme

coinages

What Renesmee means

Renesmee is a blend of Renée and Esme.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Coined by the American novelist and film producer Stephenie Meyer as the name of Renesmee Cullen (a character in her novel Breaking Dawn (2008), the fourth in the Twilight series, who also appeared in The Twilight Saga, a film series based on the novels). She is given this name by her mother (Bella Swan) as a blend of Renée + Esme, the names of Renée Dwyer (Bella Swan’s mother) and Esme Cullen (her father’s adoptive mother).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Renesmee (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Renesmee is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Renesmee is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renée and Esme.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,068 girls were recorded with the name Renesmee between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 175 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,316 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,409 in 2020 to #1,538 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,664 in 2015 to #1,538 in 2025.

How common is Renesmee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,000
138 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,538
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renesmee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,653 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renesmee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renesmees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renesmee was born before 2019 — so the typical Renesmee is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,068
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (1,117).

Is Renesmee 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
−222
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−129
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+126
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2024 (175)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,316
2024

Spellings of Renesmee

Renesmee is the most-used spelling, taking 79.6% of the 2,599 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Renesmee is used

Across 2016–2025, Renesmee was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 10,966 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 5,263
  2. 2Texas1 in 6,667
  3. 3Indiana1 in 7,692
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 7,692
  5. 5California1 in 9,091
  6. 6New York1 in 9,091
  7. 7Ohio1 in 9,091
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Renesmee around the world

Where Renesmee 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
    2010–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    2015–2025
    #3,250
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Renesmee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,538
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 129
Best rank ever
#1,316
2024
Peak year
2024
175 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,068
Count in 2025
138

Names similar to Renesmee

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

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Names with a curve like Renesmee

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

CattleyaAadyaKinsleighJourneiZayaAdalinaEverleyAizaEmberlynKorraVaydaRyder

Sibling names for Renesmee

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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