Renly
#5,155 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Renly has been given to 623 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #5,155 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 67 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 69% boys, 31% girls all-time.
Babies named Renly, 2025
1 in 174,000
Renly 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Renly over time
In 2025, Renly went to 39% girls and 61% 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 Renly?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 89,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,155
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Renly sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Renlys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Renly was born before 2018 — so the typical Renly is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 62.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 430
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (270).
Is Renly 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
- −1,197
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,444
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,300
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.68×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.4%
- Peak was 2017 (67)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.5% average annual change
Spellings of Renly
Renly is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 53.7% against Renly'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 Renly is used
Across 1910–2025, Renly was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,012,970 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Tennessee1 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. Renly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Renly around the world
Where Renly 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 & Wales2012–2025#2,440in 2025
- Canada2017–2019#2,943in 2019
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Renly by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Renly
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Renly
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.