Renee
Renee is a girl's name that peaked in 1964, when it was the 71st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,098th. About 163,000 Renees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Renee boys named Renee
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 187,513
- Estimated living today
- 163,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 71st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,098th
- First recorded
- 1889
- Girls / boys
- 185,896 / 1,617
How old the living Renees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 187,513 babies given the name since 1889, about 163,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 5,000 of them are children and 37,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Renees
- Renée Zellweger (born 1969)American actress
- Renée Fleming (born 1959)American opera soprano
- Renée Vivien (1877–1909)British poet who wrote in French
- Renee of France (1510–1574)French princess
- Renée Adorée (1898–1933)French actress
- Renée Elise Goldsberry (born 1971)American actress and singer
- Renée Taylor (born 1933)American actress and writer
- Reneé Rapp (born 2000)American actress and singer
People named Renee with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Renee is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Renee is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.1×), Hawaii (2.0×), Michigan (1.7×), Wisconsin (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Renee peaked:
Renee elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Renée +1 spelling | 221,690 | 9th |
| New Zealand girls | Renee | 3,387 | 21st |
| Belgium girls | Renée +1 spelling | 3,343 | 33rd |
| England and Wales girls | Renee | 2,851 | 305th |
| Italy girls | Renee | 473 | — |
| Norway girls | Renee | 225 | 329th |
| Scotland girls | Renee | 136 | 324th |
| Ireland girls | Renee +1 spelling | 134 | 269th |
| France boys | Renée | 45 | 745th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Renee | 29 | 259th |
| Poland girls | Renee | 2 birth registrations | 714th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Renee: rank by region
In 2025, Renee was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Renée | 11 | 167 |
| Flanders | Renee | 656 | 7 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Renee appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (5th), Province of West Flanders (5th), Province of Limburg (22nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (24th) and Province of Antwerp (32nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Renee among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Renée | 5,700 | 9,037 |
| the Netherlands boys | Renée | 291 | 442 |
| Finland girls | Renée +2 spellings | 56 | 169 |
| Finland boys | Renee | 8 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Renee lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 272 women called Renee were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Renee | 12 | 0.029 | 1,824 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Renee | 26 | 0.025 | 2,092 |
| Balears, Illes | Renee | 12 | 0.019 | 2,547 |
| Málaga | Renee | 16 | 0.017 | 2,396 |
| Barcelona | Renee | 50 | 0.016 | 2,563 |
| Coruña, A | Renee | 9 | 0.015 | 2,055 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Renee against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.