Renay
Renay was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 1,960 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Renay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 47 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,015, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1960, the peak
Renay peaked in 1960, when 76 girls were given it, #1,260 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,015 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,907 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,074 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,528 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,576 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,032 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,663 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,614 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,235 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,486 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #11,128 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,511 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,813 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,015 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,319 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,909 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,359 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,307 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,401 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,571 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,356 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,303 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,171 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,224 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,564 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,526 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,535 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,679 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,240 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,125 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,517 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,993 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,287 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,268 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,419 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,473 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,823 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,913 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,132 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,597 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,388 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,122 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 47 | #1,870 | 28.2 |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,110 | 22.3 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,556 | 35.0 |
| 1968 | 59 | #1,486 | 36.0 |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,369 | 39.4 |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,378 | 37.8 |
| 1965 | 66 | #1,364 | 37.4 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,357 | 36.4 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,707 | 23.9 |
| 1962 | 62 | #1,417 | 31.5 |
| 1961 | 71 | #1,323 | 35.2 |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,260 | 37.6 |
| 1959 | 71 | #1,276 | 35.1 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,459 | 26.8 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,485 | 25.4 |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,574 | 22.9 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,568 | 22.0 |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,455 | 24.7 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,776 | 17.0 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,112 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,913 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,787 | 16.9 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,591 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,112 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,517 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,851 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,319 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,622 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,670 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,037 | 5.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Renay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,960 Americans recorded as Renay, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Renay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renay, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,960 Americans ever recorded as Renay. The median Renay alive today is 59 years old; half are between 47 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,758 people named Renay (1,670 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 689 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 587 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 242 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 147 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14 |
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 Renay born?
The states with the most babies named Renay are New York, California and Michigan, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 89 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 72 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Renay 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, Renay is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,377 babies recorded by SSA was a Renay (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Renay
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 Renay and names like it
- Compare Renay and ReneeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRenay peaked in 1960.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renay since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Renay.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Renay alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.