Renee
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French from Latin; reborn, renewed
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəˈneɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Renee 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.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 963(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 302as Rene
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 Renee 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 963 (inferred from the name graph)
164,460 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, 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.
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)
French from Latin; reborn, renewed.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Renee 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 | 164,460 | 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 | — | Rene | 268 |
| FR France | #70 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 985 | 516K | Rene | 339 |
| NL Netherlands | #16 | 41,854as René | 1 in 413 | 41K | Rene | 163 |
| AU Australia | #130 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 963 | 98 | Renee | 244 |
| 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 | — | 18,704as René | 1 in 572 | 19K | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | #70 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 548 | 8.9K | Rene | 157 |
| DK Denmark | #700 | 9,478as René | 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); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); 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)
Renee 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 English, French; reborn
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Michèle Morganb. 1920FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1920-2016)
- Renée Taylorb. 1933USAmerican actress and writer
- Dominique Sandab. 1951FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Renée Flemingb. 1959USAmerican opera soprano
- Michelle Forbesb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Renée Zellwegerb. 1969USAmerican actress (born 1969)
- Dita Von Teeseb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican Egyptian burlesque dancer and model (born 1972)
- Faith Evansb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1973)
- Madelyn Clineb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Rebecca Blackb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 163K | #337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #337 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 218 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1996 | 98 | #79 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 97 | #1,868 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 70 | #2,054 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1998 | 44 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #2,805 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2019 | 25 | #1,720 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 10 | #5,756 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1976 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Renee mean, and where does it come from?
- French from Latin; reborn, renewed. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Renee a male or female name?
- Renee 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.
- What are other forms of the name Renee?
- In the etymology graph, Renata, Rena and Renate are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Renee?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəˈneɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Renee 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, where it is most often spelled renee.
- How common is the name Renee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164,460 people named Renee in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Renee compared with other names?
- In the United States, Renee is the 103rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Renee?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reneeThe 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, “Renee” — the 103rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.