Rennie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Ren/Reginald/Reynold
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹɛni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rennie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 832(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 82K
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
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 832 (inferred from the name graph)
4,076 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
diminutive of Ren/Reginald/Reynold
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rennie 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 | 4,076 | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Rennie | 27 |
| GD Grenada | 136 | 1 in 832 | 136 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 49 | 1 in 1M | 49 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 9 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 11 | 1 in 463K | 11 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
4,076 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; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Rennie 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 Irish, Usually a Scottish name but sometimes an Ulster variant of Rainey
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- John Rennieb. 1761GBengineer from Scotland (1761-1821)
- James Rennieb. 1787AUBritish naturalist (1787-1867)
- George Rennieb. 1802GBScottish sculptor and politician (1802-1860)
- James Rennieb. 1890CACanadian actor (1889-1965)
- Tom Rennieb. 1900GBBritish Army major general (1900–1945)
- Michael Rennieb. 1909GBBritish actor (1909-1971)
- John Rennieb. 1959USAmerican science journalist
- Callum Keith Rennieb. 1960GBCanadian actor
- Willie Rennieb. 1967GBformer Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
- David Rennieb. 2000USAmerican film editor
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 48 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,605 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 136 | #107 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 49 | #45,711 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 49 | #45,014 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 11 | #5,107 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #146,449 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #156,162 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Rennie mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Ren/Reginald/Reynold Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Rennie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɛni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rennie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Rennie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rennie.
- Where is Rennie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rennie is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 832 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rennie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,076 people named Rennie in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rennieThe 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, “Rennie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.