Renee is the French Renée, the feminine of René, from the Latin Renata, "reborn" or "born again", a name once chosen to celebrate baptism. Actress Renée Zellweger and soprano Renée Fleming are its best-known American bearers. Renee was a top 100 name in the 1960s and 1970s, had fallen to number 362 by 2000 and has been outside the top 1000 since 2015, ranking number 1099 in 2025.