Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Hungarian usage, Reni is a diminutive of Renáta.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 165
- 0 boys · 165 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,713 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,713 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 609 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Reni’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Reni is a diminutive of Renáta. Reni has a related form in René. In Greek usage, Reni is a transliteration of Ρένι.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Reni
- Reni SantoniAmerican actor (1938–2020)
- Reni TakagiJapanese singerborn 1993
- Reni YordanovaBulgarian rowerborn 1953
- Reni Eddo-LodgeBritish journalist and authorborn 1989
- Reni ErkensGerman swimmer1909–1987
- Reni TolvaiHungarian singerborn 1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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