Reni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Guide, Italian painter
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Reni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 21K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 44K
- ATAustria≈1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
10,297 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Guide, Italian painter
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 10,297 | 1 in 21K | 12K | Reni | 87 |
| US United States | 609 | 1 in 546K | 471 | Reni | 67 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Reni | 16 |
| IT Italy | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Reni | 15 |
| PH Philippines | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Reni | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 4 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 70 | 1 in 44K | 68 | — | — |
| NO Norway | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 132 | — | 3 |
10,297 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Reni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Hungarian, a diminutive of the female given name Renáta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, heard; perceived, as a scent
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, dative singular of rēn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, small of the back
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)
- Guido Renib. 1575ITBolognese painter (1575–1642)
- Reni Santonib. 1938USAmerican actor (1938–2020)
- Reni Yordanovab. 1953BGBulgarian rower
- Renate Zawrelb. 1959ATnot in their usual nameAustrian author
- Reni Assenovab. 1967BGbadminton player
- Rennie Yotovab. 1968BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian scholar
- Reni Pereirab. 1970BRBrazilian politician
- Reni Laneb. 1988USAmerican singer
- Reni Eddo-Lodgeb. 1989GBBritish journalist and author
- Reni Takagib. 1993JPJapanese 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 56 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,882 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.8K | #1,682 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.5K | #1,682 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 471 | #17,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 138 | #17,879 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 132 | #6,425 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 68 | #3,520 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 57 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 4 | #1,868 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2 | #3,520 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Reni mean, and where does it come from?
- Guide, Italian painter Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Reni a male or female name?
- Reni 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 Reni have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Reni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reni.
- Where is Reni most common?
- Reni is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,297 people named Reni in 2022, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reniThe 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, “Reni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.