Rene
From a Greek root with one plain meaning: reborn. In Poland fewer than 300 people carry it, almost all of them men, so most here have never met one.
Rene Pronunciation
Rene is pronounced RE-ne (/ˈrɛnɛ/).
What Rene means
Where Rene comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rene begins with a Greek root and one clear meaning: reborn. The idea is plain. Someone starts a life over. Christian families in France warmed to that sense of rebirth, reading it through the water of baptism, and the French spelling René fixed the name in their parish books.
France gave the name its most cited bearer in René Descartes, the philosopher born in 1596. Descartes signed his Latin books as Renatus Cartesius, and Renatus means the same thing, reborn. His writing traveled far, and the accented French spelling went with it wherever readers followed.
In a Polish szkoła the name lands as an import, and on official forms at the urząd the accent tends to fall away, leaving plain Rene. For most Poles it registers as French before anything else. The meaning stays put across all of it, reborn.
How many people are named Rene
1 in 75163 men in Poland is named Rene. 295 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1762 among male names.
Rene as a middle name
Rene is a first name for 295 men in Poland and a middle name for another 246, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 452nd, between Damazy (247) and Zenobiusz (245).
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#450 Jesus248
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#451 Damazy247
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#452 Rene246
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#453 Zenobiusz245
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#454 Noel243