Name Awesome

Renzo

#1,313 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Lorenzo

Renzo has been given to 2,690 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #1,313 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 148 recorded.

Babies named Renzo, 2025

1 in 22,400

Renzo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renzo: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Lorenzo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Renzo means

Renzo is a short form of Lorenzo.

Origin, language, and formation

Renzo is used in Italian and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lorenzo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Renzo is pronounced /ˈrɛn.t͡so/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,690 boys were recorded with the name Renzo between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 148 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,313 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,619 in 2020 to #1,313 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,947 in 2015 to #1,313 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 Renzo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,400
148 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,313
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,527 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renzo 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,527 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renzo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renzos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renzo was born before 2013 — so the typical Renzo is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,583
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (794).

Is Renzo 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
+4
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+306
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+634
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.97×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (148)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,313
2025

Spellings of Renzo

Renzo is not the most common spelling — Lorenzo is, with 40.7% against Renzo's 1.3%.

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 Renzo is used

Across 2016–2025, Renzo was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 15,011 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,692
  3. 3California1 in 9,091
  4. 4New York1 in 9,091
  5. 5Texas1 in 12,500
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 20,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 25,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 33,333

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.

Renzo around the world

Where Renzo 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
    2004–2025
    #845
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    1922–2025
    #2,956
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Renzo

People whose public names include Renzo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Renzo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,313
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 306
Best rank ever
#1,313
2025
Peak year
2024
148 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,690
Count in 2025
148

Names similar to Renzo

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

ReneeRenatoRenoRennyRenRenaldoLonzoKenzoRenlyRenanRenardRennerRennRenleyRenjiRennieAlfonzoLarenzoRentonRenaldReneAlanzoRenardoRennick

Names with a curve like Renzo

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

AymanEitanOzielYasinAkivaIsaMattiasJiovanniAnasSaifSlaterDovid

Sibling names for Renzo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Renzo

Top names of 2024, Renzo's peak yearThe 2020s in fullOther names that peaked in 2025Boys' names starting with RJapanese Boy Names