Renju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The professional variant of the game of gomoku, played on a 15×15 board, and eliminating the "perfect win" situation in gomoku by adding special conditions for the first player (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Renju is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Renju is also written রেঞ্জ in Bengali.
- INIndia≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia≈1 in 2.4M
- NONorway≈1 in 2.4M
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 Renju itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Renju in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)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)The professional variant of the game of gomoku, played on a 15×15 board, and eliminating the "perfect win" situation in gomoku by adding special conditions for the first player.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Renju 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 37 | Renju | 97 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,157as Renze | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Renju | 2 |
| US United States | 242as Renz | 1 in 1.4M | 3.3K | Renju | 85 |
| FI Finland | 149as Renja | 1 in 37K | 164 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 50as Renja | 1 in 204K | 50 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 65 | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Renju 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 Maltese, kingdom
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.
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Renju mean, and where does it come from?
- The professional variant of the game of gomoku, played on a 15×15 board, and eliminating the "perfect win" situation in gomoku by adding special conditions for the first player. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Renju a male or female name?
- Renju 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Renju?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Renju in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled renju. After it come Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, United States and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Renju?
- In Poland, the national register counted 10 people named Renju in 2026, about 1 in 3.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/renjuThe 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, “Renju” — ranked 54265th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.