Réne
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Réne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From French René.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 302(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 413
- ATAustria≈1 in 548
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Réne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #162 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 598 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 302 (inferred from the name graph)
164,460 named Renee, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rene in FR France, DE Germany, PH Philippines and 4 more and Renee in US United States, DK Denmark.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From French René.
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Réne counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #103 | 164,460as Renee | 1 in 2K | 163K | Renee | 598 |
| PH Philippines | #110 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 992 | — | Rene | 128 |
| DE Germany | #107 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 739 | 1 | Rene | 268 |
| FR France | #70 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 985 | 516K | Rene | 339 |
| NL Netherlands | #16 | 41,854 | 1 in 413 | 41K | Rene | 163 |
| SV El Salvador | #49 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 302 | — | Rene | 71 |
| GT Guatemala | #6 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 913 | — | Rene | 71 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 18,704 | 1 in 572 | 19K | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | #70 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 548 | 8.9K | Rene | 157 |
| DK Denmark | #700 | 9,478 | 1 in 619 | 9.5K | Renee | 51 |
164,460 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Réne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In roa-tar, sand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 22 | #11,050 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #34,246 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2014 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Réne mean, and where does it come from?
- From French René. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Réne a male or female name?
- Réne is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Réne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 164 thousand people named Renee, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Réne?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 41,854 people named Réne, about 1 in 413 residents.
- How common is Réne compared with other names?
- In the United States, Réne is the 103rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Réne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A9neThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Réne” — the 103rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.