Rennen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: to run
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɛnən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rennen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 81K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 137K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
145 people, 2008
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
to run
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rennen is read(measured from records)
Rennen is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- German33%
to run
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
race
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
to run; to race; to sprint (said of competing sportsmen, animals etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Kurzw. zu einem Rufnamen mit ragin/regin- „Rat, Beschluss“; 102 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- English16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rennen in English.
- Arabic15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rennen in Arabic.
- Turkish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Rennen in Turkish.
- Dutch10%
to run, to move fast
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Rennen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 145 | 1 in 81K | 145 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 126 | 1 in 137K | 126 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Rennen | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | 1 | — | — |
145 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Rennen 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 enm, to run, go, move; to travel; to flee
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)
- Ludwig Rennenb. 1845DEPrussian District Administrator and Administrative Court Director
- Beate Rennen-Allhoffb. 1951DEGerman university teacher and psychologist
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 145 | #11,327 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 126 | #15,814 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rennen mean, and where does it come from?
- to run Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Rennen?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɛnən/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Rennen have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 145 people named Rennen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rennen most common?
- Rennen is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 81 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rennen?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 145 people named Rennen in 2008, about 1 in 81 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/rennenThe 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, “Rennen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.