How Many People Are Named Renae?

12,845

people named Renae are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 26,608 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,174 babies named Renae in Social Security records from 1925 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,109

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,155

See the top 100

Peak Year

1970

386 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: rΙ™-NAY
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

English variant of RENÉE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Renae in English. Counting Renae and these spellings together, about 175,558 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Renae (99.8%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Renae alive today is about 48 years old, and 56% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 61 in 2025.

Under 30 2,021
15.7%
30 to 59 7,160
55.7%
60 and over 3,664
28.5%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Renae first appears in the records in 1925 and was given most often in 1970, to 386 babies. In 2025, 48 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1925 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Renae has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #506, in 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,287.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,287
Best rank#506 (1962)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#542 in the 1960s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Renae alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Renae were born in California than in any other state: about 962 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Renae was given 16 times as often in North Dakota, 9.1 times in South Dakota and 5.3 times in Minnesota.

California 962
Minnesota 894
Michigan 848
Pennsylvania 568
Iowa 515
Ohio 496
Illinois 463
Texas 462
North Dakota 425
Wisconsin 358
Washington 350
New York 311
South Dakota 254
Nebraska 245
Indiana 229
Florida 210
Colorado 190
Utah 172
Missouri 126
Arizona 110
Kansas 109
Oregon 107
Idaho 102
Alabama 91
Georgia 71
New Jersey 65
Oklahoma 59
Maryland 49
Virginia 36
Montana 34
Massachusetts 30
New Mexico 29
Mississippi 29
Tennessee 22
North Carolina 14
Louisiana 10
Kentucky 9
Wyoming 6
West Virginia 5
District of Columbia 4
Arkansas 4

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