Renny
Feminine · “Latin renatus”
Renny is given to both — 129 girls and 661 boys since 1880. See Renny as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Renny entered the US charts in 1950, peaked at #4315 in 1950, ranks #8362 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Renny?
Renny first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Renny is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 100 people named Renny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Renny most popular?
Renny peaked in 1950, reaching #4315 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 4,047 places below that high. See the whole 1950 chart.
Where it comes from
From renatus to Renny
The story of Renny
Early Christian naming used the vocabulary of the sacrament directly. Renatus, reborn, was given to converts and to children baptized in infancy, alongside names like Christianus, Deusdedit, God has given, and Adeodatus, given by God, which was the name of Augustine's son. The French Rene and Renee descend from it, and Italian has Renato and Renata. Reynold comes from an entirely different place, a Germanic compound of counsel and power that also gives Reginald and Ronald, and English shortened both families to Renny at various times. A short form is where etymologies go to blur, and this one has two respectable parents and no way to establish which is responsible for any particular bearer.
Meaningscholars disagree
Latin renatus, born again
Renny is most plausibly a diminutive of Rene, from Latin renatus, reborn, or of Reynold, from Germanic ragin and wald, counsel and rule. The two are unrelated and the records cannot separate them. The peak is 1942.
How the name formed
- renatus
- Rene
- Renny
Related forms: Rene · Renato · Rennie
Pronouncing Renny
REN-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. The French Rene is ruh-NAY and is a different sound entirely.
Nicknames for Renny
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 202512 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4315reached in 1950
- Change vs 2024
- +20.0%12 in 2025, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Renny in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rene in French — related form
- Renato in Italian — related form
- Rennie in English — spelling variant
Rennys among us
people named Renny are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Renny
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Renny
- #8362
- Renny on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Renny went to 12 girls in 2025, but Reni and Renni are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,427 places above the chart.
- Renny12
- Reni8
- Renni5
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Renny itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marcos test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Renny's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marcos climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marcos's path sketches the road Renny is walking now.
Renny sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Renny beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Renny in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
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Frequently asked
- How many Rennys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 100 people named Renny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Renny?
- Renny is the most-used spelling in US records — 12 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Reni and Renni.
- How popular is the name Renny in 2025?
- Renny ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Renny?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Renny — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Renny with classmates?
- Renny will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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