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Renell

Gender
Boy
Say it
ruh-NEL
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#4,301 for boys

Renell is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).

Where does Renell come from?

Modern: modern name, perhaps from Rene or the surname Rennell

Is Renell a girl's or a boy's name?

Renell is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Renell in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,301st among boys
Babies in 2025
4 about 1 in 75,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Renell, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2013, with 7 boys.

2025 had more boys named Renell than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Renell in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 7 in 20132025
Renell in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20254#4,301
20240–
20230–
20220–
20210–
20203#4,803
20190–
20185#3,596
20174#4,161
20166#3,241
20150–
20143#4,829
20137#2,792
20126#3,167
20113#4,837
20100–
20093#4,691
20080–
20073#4,486
20060–
20054#3,330
20040–
20033#3,593
20020–
20010–
20004#2,612
19990–
19980–
19974#2,438

Names like Renell

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Renell: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/renell, updated 20 October 2026.