Renae

Where Renae comes from

Renae hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1925
    First appearance
    #4,973 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1962
    Peak, #506
    366 babies named Renae — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1987
    Renae Cruz born
    American pornographic actress
  4. 1987
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #931.
  5. 1990
    Renae Ayris born
    Miss Australia 2012
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Renae Ayris · Miss Australia 2012, born 1990
  • Renae Cruz · American pornographic actress, born 1987
  • Renae Cuéllar · Mexican-American soccer player, born 1990
  • Renae Jacobs · American actress, born 1957
  • Renae Garlepp · Australian Basketball player, born 1986

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.