Renae
Renae was given to 48 girls in 2025, #3,287 among girls’ names; 14,174 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,800 Americans named Renae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 38 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renae?
#3,287 among girls’ names, 2025
Renae fell from #3,204 in 2015 to #3,287 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 29.1 to 29.9 per million.
386 babies in 1970, the peak
Renae peaked in 1970, when 386 girls were given it, #509 among girls’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,287 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,683 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,027 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,640 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,329 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,767 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,539 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,096 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,237 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,222 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,204 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,070 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,865 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,570 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,258 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,112 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,928 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,079 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,637 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,455 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,567 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,111 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,337 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,979 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 104 | #1,734 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 129 | #1,428 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,662 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,426 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,227 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 133 | #1,269 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 133 | #1,279 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 155 | #1,145 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 159 | #1,119 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 170 | #1,065 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 187 | #986 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 174 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 233 | #796 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 176 | #933 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 228 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 240 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 219 | #746 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 240 | #711 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 272 | #657 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 260 | #674 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 310 | #599 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 258 | #671 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 275 | #613 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 261 | #638 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 240 | #648 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 297 | #564 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 273 | #581 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 289 | #569 | 0.20 |
| 1972 | 309 | #540 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 344 | #532 | 0.21 |
| 1970 | 386 | #509 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 340 | #535 | 0.20 |
| 1968 | 346 | #519 | 0.21 |
| 1967 | 340 | #514 | 0.21 |
| 1966 | 289 | #559 | 0.17 |
| 1965 | 312 | #538 | 0.18 |
| 1964 | 353 | #523 | 0.19 |
| 1963 | 315 | #547 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 366 | #506 | 0.19 |
| 1961 | 334 | #539 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 302 | #566 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 280 | #594 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 280 | #593 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 278 | #578 | 0.14 |
| 1956 | 234 | #627 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 185 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 205 | #642 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 162 | #715 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 153 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 123 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 113 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 116 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 78 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,190 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,571 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,423 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,415 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,102 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,809 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,286 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,403 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,466 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,723 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,451 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,623 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Renae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renae has been given almost only to girls: 33 boys in 98 years of records.
Girls and boys named Renae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renae, and how old are they?
12,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 14,174 Americans ever recorded as Renae. The median Renae alive today is 51 years old; half are between 38 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 13,024 people named Renae (12,926 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 602 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Renae born?
The states with the most babies named Renae are California, Minnesota and Michigan, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,035 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 1,012 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Michigan | 928 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 622 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Iowa | 568 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Ohio | 535 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 511 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 490 | #2,176 | 0.5× |
| North Dakota | 488 | not ranked | 8.6× |
| Wisconsin | 395 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Renae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Renae is most over-represented in North Dakota: since 1925 it was given 8.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Renae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 282,306 babies since 1880, Renae is the fourth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 1,377 babies (3.5%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Renae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Renae and names like it
- Compare Renae and ReneeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRenae peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renae since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Renae.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Renae alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.