Given name & surname · also French
Reny
Reny is a surname from French, ultimately from Hungarian.
Original HungarianRényi
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Reny comes from French, and ultimately from Hungarian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Reny as a surname developed from Rényi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reny through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 11 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1996. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 465 as a first name in 2020; 509 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.
Reny’s family of names
In English usage, Reny as a surname developed from the Hungarian form Rényi.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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