How Many People Are Named Renard?

2,228

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

About 1 in 153,404 people in the US has this name

Based on 2,690 babies named Renard in Social Security records from 1910 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#6,279

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#2,345

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Peak Year

1970

63 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: French (Rare)
Pronunciation: RU-NAR
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

French form of REYNARD. Because of the medieval character Reynard the Fox, renard became a French word meaning "fox".

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

Related & Similar Names

RaginhardRainardReinhardRaynardReynard

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Renard in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Renard alive today is about 46 years old, and 55% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 34 and 60 in 2025.

Under 30 409
18.4%
30 to 59 1,217
54.6%
60 and over 601
27%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Renard first appears in the records in 1910 and was given most often in 1970, to 63 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.

Babies given the name each year, 1910 to 2024

🏆 Rank History

Renard has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #956, in 1965.

Boys
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#956 (1965)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,088 in the 1960s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Renard were born in Illinois than in any other state: about 148 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Renard was given 8.9 times as often in Louisiana, 4.9 times in Florida and 4.5 times in Illinois.

Illinois 148
Florida 117
Louisiana 116
Michigan 50
Maryland 47
California 45
New York 44
Georgia 19
Texas 19
South Carolina 10
District of Columbia 9
New Jersey 8
Virginia 6
Missouri 5
Mississippi 5

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