girls:
14k births since 1925
#1300 (77th percentile)
boys:
33 births since 1955
#4553 (1st percentile)
overall:
14.1k births since 1925
#2208 (71st percentile)
The name Renae is the #2,208 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,081 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 71.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,300 (77.3% percentile) for all time with 14,048 births since 1925. For boys, it ranks #4,553 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1955.
Renae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for girls and 1955 for boys). Birth data for Renae is available in 96 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (96 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Renae has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Renae reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 40.9% percentile (ranked #457) with 211 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 211 births per million (ranked 40.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Renae ranks #915 for girls (3.4% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 10.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Renae reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #637) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Renae".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Renae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.6% confident that Renae is pronounced as ruh-NAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ree-NAY, at 22.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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