Renae

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Renae: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Renae: Recorded since 1975, with a gap of 16 years, its highest recorded position is #83, and it stood at #952 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#83highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Renae's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1287
1998	#1259
1999	#1393
2000	#1139
2001	#1359
2002	#1317
2003	#1383
2004	#1312
2005	#890
2006	#1153
2007	#987
2008	#1302
2009	#1105
2010	#1093
2011	#766
2012	#663
2013	#743
2014	#582
2015	#722
2016	#693
2017	#673
2018	#701
2019	#770
2020	#840
2021	#918
2022	#718
2023	#813
2024	#952

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #418 among girls in Northern Ireland, #718 among girls in England and Wales, #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1975–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #83 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1975–1979
Highest recorded position: #83 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1975 (recorded 1975–1979).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #952 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Renae appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,022 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1975.

Renae across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Renae's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#582 (2014)	#952 (2024)	29 of 29	1,022 (1996–2024)	71 (2014)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#355 (2017)	#355 (2017)	#418 (2022)	3 of 6	11 (2017–2022)	4 (2017)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#83 (1975)	#83 (1975)	#88 (1979)	5 of 5	437 (1975–1979)	96 (1978)

Renae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Renae in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	51	4 of 10	13
2000s	212	10 of 10	21
2010sbusiest	546	10 of 10	55
2020s	213	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 55 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Renae appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #83 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978.

Renae's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#952	37	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#813	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#718	51	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#840	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#770	49	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#701	57	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#673	61	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#693	59	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#722	55	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#582	71	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#743	53	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#663	62	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#766	49	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1093	30	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1312	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1359	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1139	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1393	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
1979	New South Wales, Australia	female	#88	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
1978	New South Wales, Australia	female	#83	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
1977	New South Wales, Australia	female	#100	75	Insufficient	Not yet available
1976	New South Wales, Australia	female	#85	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
1975	New South Wales, Australia	female	#83	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1975 and 2024, ranked in 34 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #83, first reached in 1975.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1978.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 47 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Rena · #385, 37y
Renad · #2392, 18y
Renai · #2438, 16y
Renas · #2088, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Iona · #83, 32y
Khloe · #83, 29y
Chester · #84, 29y
Ewan · #84, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Abel · #82, 43y
Cleo · #82, 39y
Ewan · #84, 32y
Jaime · #82, 36y

Renae was ranked #83 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1975. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Renae and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Renae without appearing here.

Renae moved ahead of

Lorraine Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1312 and #1312 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #890 and #2438.
Pauline Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1383 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1312 and #2802.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1755 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1287 and #2738.
Bernadette Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1312 and #1209 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #890 and #1934.

Moved ahead of Renae

Maja Compare
In 2005 they stood at #890 and #951 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1153 and #456.
Mila Compare
In 2005 they stood at #890 and #931 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1153 and #649.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #770 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #840 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #766 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #663 and #284.

Moved the opposite way to Renae

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Renae

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Renae went from #1755 to #952 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #83 in New South Wales, Australia in 1978. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Renae

Renae at a glance

What stands out in Renae's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Renae across 3 official records

Renae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Renae appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Renae

Renae and the names beside it

Renae moved ahead of

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Renae at a glance

What stands out in Renae's record

Renae across 3 official records

Renae by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Renae appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Renae

Renae and the names beside it

Renae moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Renae

Moved the opposite way to Renae

Moved the same way as Renae