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Renie

Girls' name

Diminutive of Renee

Renie has been given to 620 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1952, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Renie, 1988

1 in 739,000

Renie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Renee

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renie means

Renie is a diminutive of Renee.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Renie is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Renie → Renee → Renée → Renée → René. The family’s meaning is “reborn”, recorded in French with the source elements renātus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 614 girls were recorded with the name Renie between 1894 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1952; its best national rank was #1,667 in 1894.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Renie between 1915 and 1915. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1915; its best national rank was #3,747 in 1915.

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 Renie?

Renie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 356,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,128 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renie 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renie was born before 1953 — so the typical Renie is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Renie 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 1952 (21)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,667
1894

Spellings of Renie

Renie is not the most common spelling — Denise is, with 18.2% against Renie's 0.03%.

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 Renie is used

Across 1910–2025, Renie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,008,278 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —

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

Renie around the world

Where Renie 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
    2010–2010
    #3,533
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Renie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,667
1894
Peak year
1952
21 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
614
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,747
1915
Peak year
1915
6 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1915
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renie

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

RennieRenadRenleeRennaRenlyReniyaRenneReniaRenleyRennyRenattaRennRenReniyahRendaReneaJonieRenliReniDanieRenellRainieRenadaSonnie

Sibling names for Renie

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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