Renee

Where Renee comes from

The dictionaries list Renee as a given name — a female given name from French, alternative spelling of Renée — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,025 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Peak, #62
    5,564 babies named Renee — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1984
    Renee Paquette born
    Canadian sports broadcaster and actress
  4. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #107.
  5. 1989
    Renee Olstead born
    American actress and singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French, alternative spelling of Renée.
Namesakes
  • Renee Olstead · American actress and singer, born 1989
  • Renee Paquette · Canadian sports broadcaster and actress, born 1984
  • Renee Pornero · Austrian pornographic actress, born 1979
  • Renee Montgomery · American basketball player, born 1986
  • Renee Ellmers · former U.S. Representative from North Carolina, born 1964

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.