Renee
Barely a footprint in Poland: about 67 people carry it, most of them women. From Latin, meaning "born again", though today it stays rare and is fading further.
Renee Pronunciation
What Renee means
Where Renee comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Renee comes from the Latin Renatus, and its feminine partner Renata. Both mean born again. Early Christians gave the word to baptism, the rite that washed the old life away and started a new one. French shaped the Latin into René for men and Renée for women. English speakers borrowed the second spelling and dropped the accent.
The meaning has not drifted. Born again in English, odrodzona in Polish.
On a Polish class register, a Renee sits among the Zuzannas and Julias, her name Latin at the root yet plain to read aloud. The idea of rebirth was religious first. It marked a soul made new, long before it marked a child. That older sense still sits inside Renata, the form more common in Poland, and inside the short meaning odrodzona, born again.
How many people are named Renee
1 in 395506 women in Poland is named Renee. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4448 among female names.
Renee's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Renee as a middle name
Renee is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 128, a 34/66 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 581st, between Hope (128) and Amy (126).
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#579 Kleopatra129
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#580 Hope128
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#581 Renee128
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#582 Amy126
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#583 Andrzelika126