Renan
Renan was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,073 among boys’ names; 407 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Renan mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Renan is “a male given name”
/ʁeˈnɐ̃/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Renan?
#6,073 among boys’ names, 2025
Renan rose from #9,384 in 2015 to #6,073 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.8 per million.
18 babies in 2000, the peak
Renan peaked in 2000, when 18 boys were given it, #4,335 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,073 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,186 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,552 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,172 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,593 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,579 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #7,085 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,029 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,269 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,032 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,384 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,428 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,928 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,513 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,940 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,501 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,654 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,473 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,472 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,897 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,711 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,693 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,936 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,343 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,335 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,955 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,391 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,123 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,966 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,615 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,437 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,558 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,830 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,194 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,940 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,238 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,869 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,794 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,143 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,415 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,226 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,059 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,898 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,685 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,492 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,607 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Renan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renan, and how old are they?
An estimated 396 Americans named Renan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 9 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,541 people named Renan (44 women and girls, 1,497 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 337 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,145 babies since 1880, Renan is the sixth most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 484 babies (3.1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Renan
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 Renan and names like it
- Compare Renan and RenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRenan peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renan since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Renan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Renan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Renan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.