Renée
Meaning and origin
Wiktionary describes it as a female given name from French. From French Renée, meaning reborn, stemmed from Latin Renata. Feminine form of male René.
Source: Wiktionary, English entry for Renée (CC BY-SA 4.0). This is the origin of the name in English; families in Sweden may have taken it from another language.
Popularity in Sweden
Among newborns, Renée has been fairly steady over the last few years. Its best year between 1998 and 2022 was 2015. The figures are for this exact spelling; other spellings of the name are counted on their own.
Years with fewer than two babies (fewer than ten before 2004) show as zero in the chart and as – in the table.
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| Year | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1998 | – |
| 1999 | – |
| 2000 | – |
| 2001 | – |
| 2002 | – |
| 2003 | – |
| 2004 | – |
| 2005 | 3 |
| 2006 | – |
| 2007 | – |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | – |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | – |
| 2013 | – |
| 2014 | – |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | – |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 |
Everyone registered in Sweden on 31 December with this as the first name they use.
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| Year | Women and girls | Men and boys |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1,005 | – |
| 2000 | 1,019 | – |
| 2001 | 1,014 | – |
| 2002 | 1,016 | – |
| 2003 | 1,031 | – |
| 2004 | 1,042 | – |
| 2005 | 1,038 | – |
| 2006 | 1,042 | – |
| 2007 | 1,045 | – |
| 2008 | 1,049 | – |
| 2009 | 1,048 | – |
| 2010 | 1,053 | – |
| 2011 | 1,055 | – |
| 2012 | 1,056 | – |
| 2013 | 1,047 | – |
| 2014 | 1,048 | – |
| 2015 | 1,046 | – |
| 2016 | 1,041 | – |
| 2017 | 1,045 | 10 |
| 2018 | 1,047 | – |
| 2019 | 1,042 | – |
| 2020 | 1,046 | – |
Renée in a sentence
- Hej! Jag heter Renée.Hi! My name is Renée.
- Renée har bott i Uppsala i tre år.Renée has lived in Uppsala for three years.
- Vet du om Renée kommer på festen på lördag?Do you know if Renée is coming to the party on Saturday?
- Renées mamma är lärare.Renée's mum is a teacher.
Swedish shows possession with a plain -s and no apostrophe: Renées mamma is Renée's mum.
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What does the name Renée mean?
Wiktionary describes it as a female given name from French. From French Renée, meaning reborn, stemmed from Latin Renata. Feminine form of male René.
How popular is Renée in Sweden?
3 babies were named Renée in 2022. In 2020, 1,046 people in Sweden had Renée as the first name they go by. Among newborns the name has been fairly steady lately and peaked in 2015 in the years SCB covers (1998–2022).
Popularity figures: Statistics Sweden (SCB), name statistics (BE0001) from the Statistical Database, released as open data under CC0. Each spelling is counted as its own name, as SCB does. SCB's open name statistics end with babies named in 2022 and the population on 31 December 2020; SCB stopped producing name statistics in 2024 and now points to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) for newer figures.
Origins, IPA and recordings: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), via kaikki.org; recordings from Lingua Libre on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA). Lingolib is not affiliated with SCB or Wiktionary. Sources last checked 7 October 2026.