Renard
Renard was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 2,690 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,210 Americans named Renard and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 35 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renard by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renard?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,671, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1970, the peak
Renard peaked in 1970, when 63 boys were given it, #1,029 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,671 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,559 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,826 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,695 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,558 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,662 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,440 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,663 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,385 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,235 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 12 | #6,929 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,002 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,880 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,995 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,750 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,706 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,474 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,254 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,981 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,552 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,236 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,856 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,813 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,398 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,346 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,908 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 38 | #2,251 | 20.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,144 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,163 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,736 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,196 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,025 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,882 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 54 | #1,550 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 43 | #1,783 | 21.5 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,567 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,456 | 26.8 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,750 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 50 | #1,385 | 27.1 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,525 | 22.7 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,290 | 29.0 |
| 1982 | 40 | #1,557 | 22.0 |
| 1981 | 42 | #1,493 | 23.4 |
| 1980 | 52 | #1,307 | 29.1 |
| 1979 | 48 | #1,348 | 27.9 |
| 1978 | 38 | #1,532 | 23.1 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,425 | 25.6 |
| 1976 | 33 | #1,638 | 21.0 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,340 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,781 | 17.2 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,217 | 30.2 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,174 | 30.2 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,123 | 30.5 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,029 | 33.9 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,195 | 24.6 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,114 | 26.5 |
| 1967 | 46 | #1,097 | 26.4 |
| 1966 | 56 | #981 | 31.4 |
| 1965 | 60 | #956 | 32.3 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,042 | 26.6 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,147 | 22.6 |
| 1962 | 55 | #1,033 | 26.6 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,074 | 25.0 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,234 | 19.2 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,150 | 21.6 |
| 1958 | 59 | #998 | 27.8 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,058 | 24.1 |
| 1956 | 59 | #974 | 27.9 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,097 | 22.8 |
| 1954 | 50 | #1,063 | 24.5 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,300 | 17.2 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,313 | 17.0 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,547 | 12.7 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,865 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,455 | 14.7 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,805 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,641 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,247 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,218 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,598 | 6.6 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,674 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,908 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,392 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,584 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,448 | 9.0 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,960 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,221 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,050 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,218 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,189 | 7.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,642 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,104 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,252 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,762 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,183 | 5.6 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,311 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,455 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,386 | 5.6 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,793 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Renard a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renard has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renard: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renard, and how old are they?
2,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 2,690 Americans ever recorded as Renard. The median Renard alive today is 47 years old; half are between 35 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,809 people named Renard (16 women and girls, 1,793 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 517 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 658 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 619 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 93 |
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 Renard born?
The states with the most babies named Renard are Illinois, Louisiana and Florida, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 177 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 133 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Florida | 127 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 60 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 56 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 52 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Renard is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Renard is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 boys’ 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 Renard 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,899 babies since 1880, Renard is the most given (69% 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 Renard
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 Renard and names like it
- Compare Renard and ReynardBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRenard peaked in 1970.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renard since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Renard.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Renard alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.