Renn
Renn is given to both girls and boys: 28 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,849 among girls’ names and #5,558 among boys’, #6,077 among all names counting both); 627 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Renn?
#5,558 among boys’ names, 2025
Renn fell from #5,464 in 2015 to #5,558 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 10.0 per million.
62 babies in 2023, the peak
Renn peaked in 2023, when 62 babies were given it (20 boys, #5,020 among boys’ names). The 45 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,849 | 17 | #5,558 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,260 | 19 | #5,203 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,698 | 20 | #5,020 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,091 | 13 | #6,749 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,204 | 14 | #6,269 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,450 | 11 | #7,390 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,942 | 12 | #7,086 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,683 | 14 | #6,260 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,500 | 8 | #9,495 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,588 | 13 | #6,643 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,550 | 17 | #5,464 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 12 | #6,964 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,285 | 7 | #10,487 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,962 | 10 | #8,004 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,515 | 6 | #11,941 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #9,479 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,578 | 6 | #12,146 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #12,236 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,568 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,397 | 9 | #8,577 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,569 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #10,377 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,032 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #9,017 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #9,848 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 10 | #5,559 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,299 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #6,279 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,688 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 9 | #5,122 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,870 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 10 | #4,395 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,605 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,157 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,554 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,686 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,127 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,830 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,946 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,961 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Renn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 627 Americans recorded as Renn, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Renn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renn, and how old are they?
An estimated 612 Americans named Renn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 542 people named Renn (190 women and girls, 352 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 8,141 babies since 1880, Renn is the fourth most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 501 babies (9.0%), the third 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 Renn
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 Renn and names like it
- Compare Renn and RenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRenn peaked in 2023.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renn since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Renn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Renn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.