Renne
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Renne has been given to 639 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1971, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Renne, 2003
1 in 760,000
Renne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Renne over time
In 2008, Renne 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 Renne?
Renne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 760,000
- 5 of 3,801,425 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 365,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 526,991 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Renne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rennes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Renne was born before 1969 — so the typical Renne is around 56 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 29.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 22.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 557
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (168).
Is Renne 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 1971 (28)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.1% average annual change
Spellings of Renne
Renne is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 17.8% against Renne'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 Renne is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Renne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,334,398 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Renne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Renne is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Renne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,162,180 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Renne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Renne around the world
Where Renne 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.
- France1906–1906#878in 1906
- South Australia1977–1977#637in 1977
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Renne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Renne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Renne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.