girls:
21.8k births since 1885
#975 (83rd percentile)
boys:
50.5k births since 1880
#497 (89th percentile)
overall:
72.3k births since 1880
#857 (89th percentile)
The name Rene is the #857 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 72,318 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #497 (89.2% percentile) for all time with 50,509 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #975 (83.0% percentile) for all time with 21,809 births since 1885.
Rene has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1885 for girls). Birth data for Rene is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 134 years for girls). 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 Rene has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 91.3% of babies named Rene were boys.
For boys, Rene reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 63.8% percentile (ranked #249) with 435 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 457 births per million (ranked 61.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rene ranks #716 for boys (21.4% percentile) with 109 births per million, which is 23.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rene reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 61.3% percentile (ranked #299) with 452 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 452 births per million (ranked 61.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rene ranks #933 for girls (1.5% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rene".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Rene is pronounced as ruh-NAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is reh-NAY, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like R AH0 N EY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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