Renny
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to boys 83.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1942 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 661since 1936
Renny over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | — | |
| 2019 | — | #10,803 | 6 | |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | — | |
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | — | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,985 | 8 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,786 | 9 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,968 | 8 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,709 | 15 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,120 | 11 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,716 | 13 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,819 | 12 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,973 | 11 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,798 | 9 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,435 | 11 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,246 | 12 | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,242 | 10 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,182 | 12 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,042 | 13 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,656 | 8 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
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First appearance
1936
The first year at least five boys were named Renny! It came in at #2,452, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1940, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Renny is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Renny in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Renny
Momentum · boys
Brand new
- 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1942 at #2,042 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1946, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 104,600
- Highest: 1 in 104,600 boys born in 1976 were named Renny (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,042 in 1942, was only 1 in 106,243 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1970s
- 16.5% of all boys named Renny (109) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 22 | #2,452 (1936) | #2,871 |
| 1940s | 90 | #2,042 (1942) | #2,466 |
| 1950s | 85 | #2,246 (1951) | #2,909 |
| 1960s | 78 | #2,300 (1963) | #3,023 |
| 1970s | 109 | #2,709 (1976) | #3,314 |
| 1980s | 70 | #3,221 (1981) | #5,225 |
| 1990s | 67 | #4,993 (1990) | #7,034 |
| 2000s | 68 | #5,920 (2000) | #8,903 |
| 2010s | 36 | #7,591 (2010) | #9,682 |
| 2020s | 36 | #8,166 (2021) | #9,824 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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