Given name & surname
Renard
“resembling a fox”·“a strong counselor”
Renard is a variant of Reynard. Interpretations include “resembling a fox” and “a strong counselor”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Renard is a variant of Reynard. Interpretations include “resembling a fox” and “a strong counselor”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Renard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,690
- 2,690 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1970
- 63 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −46%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 63 in 1970. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,809 as a first name in 2020; 1,990 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Renard’s family of names
In French usage, Renard has a conventional equivalent in the German form Reinhard. Renard has a related form in Reynard.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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