Like the French form Renée, the English female name Renee is derived from the Latin first name Renatus. It was given to boys and means ‘born again’. Because of this meaning, the name was popular among early Christians in ancient Rome.
Renee is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Renee isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Renee ranks 929. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Renee. In the entire USA, approximately 180,579 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Renee. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Like the French form Renée, the English female name Renee is derived from the Latin first name Renatus. It was given to boys and means ‘born again’. Because of this meaning, the name was popular among early Christians in ancient Rome.
An English variant of Renee is... Rena, which is by far not as commonly known as Renee.
#64 - this is the highest position Renee has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Renee reached this top position was in the last century, in 1967, when 5,602 newborn girls were named Renee. But as our statistics show, Renee has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1899, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Renee is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Renee was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 245 newborns were given the name Renee, making them rank #936. Although the name Renee was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Renee are still there in our contemporary times.
The name Renee may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Renee is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 393 women in Hawaii is called Renee. In total, that’s 1,124 women who feel addressed when the name Renee is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #107 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Renee as the answer a total of 180,071 times. This places Renee at #200 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Renee as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Renee is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Renee and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Renee, you can simply say:
Rocket
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Renee
Renee
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
R
E
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E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Renee sounds like this:
