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Renny

#11,704 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Rennie

Renny has been given to 790 babies in the U.S. since 1936. In 2025 it ranked #11,704 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1976, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.

Babies named Renny, 2025

1 in 553,000

Renny over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Renny over time

In 2025, Renny went to 67% girls and 33% boys.

19362025

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.

Renny: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rennie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renny means

Renny is a variant of Rennie.

Origin, language, and formation

Renny is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rennie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 661 boys were recorded with the name Renny between 1936 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1976; its best national rank was #2,123 in 1942.

In the United States, 129 girls were recorded with the name Renny between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,644 in 1950.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,115 in 2020 to #8,754 in 2025.

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 Renny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,704
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renny sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rennys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renny was born before 1974 — so the typical Renny is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
549
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1970s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Renny 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
+2,093
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1976 (15)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,123
1942

Spellings of Renny

Renny is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 45.4% against Renny's 0.04%.

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 Renny is used

Across 1910–2025, Renny was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,796,049 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Renny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renny around the world

Where Renny 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
    2001–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1965–1980
    #2,858
    in 1980
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1975–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Renny by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,704
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,123
1942
Peak year
1976
15 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
661
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,754
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,361
Best rank ever
#4,644
1950
Peak year
2025
12 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Renny

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

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Sibling names for Renny

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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