Reneau
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹɪˈnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reneau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 101K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 419K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
3,279 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reneau 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 | 3,279 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Reneau | 130 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | Reneau | 6 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | 10 | Reneau | 86 |
| HN Honduras | — | — | — | Reneau | 8 |
3,279 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brenda Reneaub. 1954USAmerican politician
- Paul Réneaub. 1960BZBelizean sprinter (* 1960)
- Enrique Reneaub. 1971HNHonduran footballer (1971-2015)
- Marion Reneaub. 1977USAmerican mixed martial arts fighter
- Jenna Reneaub. 1991USFIBA referee
- Malik Reneaub. 2003USAmerican basketball player (born 2003)
- Francis ReneauBZBelizean musician
- Stanley ReneauBZBelizean footballer
- James Martel ReneauUSAmerican academic
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,789 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,921 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Reneau?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪˈnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Reneau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Reneau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reneau.
- Where is Reneau most common?
- Reneau is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 101 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reneau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,279 people named Reneau in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Reneau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reneauThe 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, “Reneau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.