Rennie

Where Rennie comes from

The dictionaries list Rennie as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Debut at its peak, #936
    #936 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1940
    Rennie Davis born
    American activist
  4. 1964
    Rennie Harris born
    American choreographer
  5. 2019
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Rennie Davis · American activist, 1940–2021
  • Rennie Harris · American choreographer, born 1964
  • Rennie Harrison · footballer (1897-?), born 1897
  • Rennie Smith · British politician, 1888–1962
  • Rennie Stennett · American baseball player, 1951–2021

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.