Renald
Renald was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 518 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renald by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renald?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,042, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1924, the peak
Renald peaked in 1924, when 17 boys were given it, #2,032 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #12,042 | 2.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,144 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,377 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,457 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,229 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,997 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,620 | 4.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,351 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,473 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,071 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 8 | #4,907 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,860 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,075 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,849 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,551 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,716 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,573 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,282 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,021 | 5.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,478 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,493 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,951 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,300 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,485 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,531 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,786 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,923 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,440 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,905 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,863 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,477 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #3,018 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,970 | 4.5 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,576 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,752 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,051 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,459 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,253 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,171 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,377 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,495 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,836 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,391 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,614 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,634 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,466 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,220 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,368 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,560 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,603 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,303 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,568 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,434 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,615 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,681 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,641 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,711 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,032 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,761 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,196 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,479 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,182 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,073 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,680 | 4.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,331 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Renald a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renald has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renald: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renald, and how old are they?
An estimated 237 Americans named Renald and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 43 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 608 people named Renald (4 women and girls, 604 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Renald rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 5,459 babies since 1880, Renald is the second most given (9.5% of them).
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 Renald
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 Renald and names like it
- Compare Renald and ReynoldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sRenald peaked in 1924.
- Maine’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renald since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Renald.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Renald alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.