Renee
Renee is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 239 births. Its best rank was 62nd, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2390.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19626,013 births
- Best rank
- #62in 1967
- Since 1889
- 187,285people given the name
The story in the numbers
185,673 girls have been named Renee in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 6,013 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 239 births in 2024, against 6,013 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 22 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,612 boys have also been given it, 0.86% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Renee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 29 | |
| 1900s | 161 | |
| 1910s | 665 | |
| 1920s | 2,295 | |
| 1930s | 3,120 | |
| 1940s | 7,817 | |
| 1950s | 32,949 | |
| 1960s | 55,814 | |
| 1970s | 37,592 | |
| 1980s | 24,414 | |
| 1990s | 11,083 | |
| 2000s | 5,778 | |
| 2010s | 2,778 | |
| 2020s | 1,171 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Renee was the 76th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Renee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Juliepeak 1958
- Valariepeak 1964
- Reneapeak 1964
- Lanettepeak 1964
- Carlapeak 1962
- Janinepeak 1960
- Terisapeak 1968
- Martipeak 1969
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.