Meaning not yet researched.
Renae: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #506 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #506 in 1962; #3,287 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Renae in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,287 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #506.
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Renae: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 girls in 2025. Peak: #506 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 386 (1970).
In 2025, 48 US girls were named Renae, making it the 3,287th most common girls’ name of the year, up 396 places from #3,683 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 42 girls named Renae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #506, reached in 1962. The most girls given the name in a single year was 386, in 1970. For comparison, it was #3,204 in 2015 and #823 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Renae in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 14,174 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,309 babies named Renae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 439 US girls were named Renae; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,485 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rena (39,247 babies since 1880), Reyna (18,679 babies since 1880), Reina (14,080 babies since 1880) and Rina (4,809 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Renae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,642 | — | — |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,097 | — | — |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,237 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,223 | — | — |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1993 | 155 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1991 | 170 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1990 | 187 | #988 | — | — |
| 1989 | 174 | #993 | — | — |
| 1988 | 233 | #796 | — | — |
| 1987 | 176 | #933 | — | — |
| 1986 | 228 | #762 | — | — |
| 1985 | 240 | #719 | 5 | #7,356 |
| 1984 | 219 | #746 | — | — |
| 1983 | 240 | #711 | — | — |
| 1982 | 272 | #657 | — | — |
| 1981 | 260 | #674 | 6 | #6,084 |
| 1980 | 310 | #599 | — | — |
| 1979 | 258 | #671 | — | — |
| 1978 | 275 | #613 | — | — |
| 1977 | 261 | #638 | — | — |
| 1976 | 240 | #648 | — | — |
| 1975 | 297 | #564 | — | — |
| 1974 | 273 | #581 | — | — |
| 1973 | 289 | #569 | — | — |
| 1972 | 309 | #540 | — | — |
| 1971 | 344 | #532 | — | — |
| 1970 | 386 | #509 | — | — |
| 1969 | 340 | #535 | — | — |
| 1968 | 346 | #519 | — | — |
| 1967 | 340 | #514 | — | — |
| 1966 | 289 | #559 | 6 | #3,852 |
| 1965 | 312 | #538 | — | — |
| 1964 | 353 | #523 | — | — |
| 1963 | 315 | #547 | 6 | #3,951 |
| 1962 | 366 | #506 | — | — |
| 1961 | 334 | #539 | — | — |
| 1960 | 302 | #566 | — | — |
| 1959 | 280 | #594 | 5 | #4,452 |
| 1958 | 280 | #593 | — | — |
| 1957 | 278 | #579 | — | — |
| 1956 | 234 | #628 | — | — |
| 1955 | 185 | #692 | 5 | #4,281 |
| 1954 | 205 | #643 | — | — |
| 1953 | 162 | #716 | — | — |
| 1952 | 153 | #721 | — | — |
| 1951 | 123 | #807 | — | — |
| 1950 | 113 | #823 | — | — |
| 1949 | 116 | #811 | — | — |
| 1948 | 78 | #991 | — | — |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,736 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,453 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,113 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,625 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).