Entry № 8656 · French origin

Renée Renée — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ruh-NAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Reborn (Renée Zellweger; Renée Fleming)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "reborn (renée zellweger; renée fleming)".

Renée is the French feminine of René — from the Latin renatus (reborn) — originally a Christian baptismal name signaling spiritual rebirth.

Subject of countless 2020 Oscar retrospectives.

Reborn (Renée Zellweger; Renée Fleming) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Renée
Transliteration
Renée
Pronunciation
/ rəˈneɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Renée stands.

Renée does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Renées before her.

Real people
Renée Zellweger
American Oscar actress.
born 1969
Renée Fleming
American soprano.
born 1959
Renée Russo
American actress.
born 1954
In fiction
Renée
Various French literature.

Names connected to Renée.

The number behind Renée.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Renée reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.