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Renee vs Renwick

American parents have registered 187,513 Renees since 1880, against 543 Renwicks. Renee is still ahead, with 223 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Renee against Renwick, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Renee Renwick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Renee has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1889 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1917, when Renee had 94 and Renwick had 5.

Side by side

  Renee Renwick
Total US births 187,513543
Most in one year 6,04527
Babies in 2025 223under 5
Estimated living today 163,000440
Median age today 5657
Peak year 19641959
Best rank 71st girls1,522nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,098thunranked
First recorded 18891917
Girls / boys 185,896 / 1,6170 / 543

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Renee and Renwick.