Rene
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: kidney
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rene/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rene 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.
- 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 Rene 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
borne by a 4th-cent. saint, and popular in France through¬ out the Middle Ages because of its transparent reference to Christian spiritual rebirth. Var.: Resnais (a hypercorrected form). Renisch see Raine Vars. (of 2): Reiss, Reisman(n). Renison see Rainey
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rene is read(measured from records)
Rene is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish39%
kidney
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English29%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rene in English.
- French14%
borne by a 4th-cent. saint, and popular in France through¬ out the Middle Ages because of its transparent reference to Christian spiritual rebirth. Var.: Resnais (a hypercorrected form). Renisch see Raine Vars. (of 2): Reiss, Reisman(n). Renison see Rainey
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- German5.7%
nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Ren
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rene 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 | — | 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); 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)
Rene is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, subst., termen geografic (plaj5), formeaza toponime : Renia (Ard), Renea, o insula §i citeva paduri etc., Reni ora§, dar §i antroponime 1. Alexandrescu act. ; Moldoveanu, prenume ; Renle, -ea, -escu (R Gr) ; -ea, V. 1804, bra§ovean, neg. in Bucurejti. 2. Renie 1722 ard. (Pa§) ; - de Herseni (Pu§c. Frag. IV) 3. Renes mr. (Cara 82). 4. Rinie ard., 1633 (Pas) ; Rinesti s. (Gr Buc).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In enm, alternative form of reyn (“boundary”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite natural masculine singular of ren
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Auguste Rodinb. 1840FRnot in their usual nameFrench sculptor (1840–1917)
- René Guénonb. 1886FRFrench metaphysician (1886-1951)
- René Lacosteb. 1904FRFrench tennis player
- René Goscinnyb. 1926FRFrench comic book artist and author (1926-1977)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaingb. 1926FRnot in their usual nameFrench official and politician (1926–2020)
- Jacques Chiracb. 1932FRnot in their usual namePresident of France from 1995 to 2007
- René Prévalb. 1943HTEx-President of Haiti (1943-2017)
- François Bayroub. 1951FRnot in their usual nameformer Prime Minister of France (2024–2025)
- René Higuitab. 1966COColombian footballer
- Jen Psakib. 1978USnot in their usual nameWhite House Press Secretary from 2021 to 2022
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 102 sources across 53 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 65K | #632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #632 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 8.9K | #583 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4.7K | #132 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 197 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 74 | #1,563 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Is Rene a male or female name?
- Rene 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.
- How do you pronounce Rene?
- A machine transcription gives /rene/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Rene come from?
- borne by a 4th-cent. saint, and popular in France through¬ out the Middle Ages because of its transparent reference to Christian spiritual rebirth. Var.: Resnais (a hypercorrected form). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Rene mean?
- In Spanish, kidney
- In which country does Rene 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 Rene?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 41,854 people named Rene, about 1 in 413 residents.
- How common is Rene compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rene is the 103rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reneThe 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, “Rene” — the 103rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.