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Renesmee

Gender
Girl
Say it
re-NEZ-may
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#1,779 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,534 for girls

Renesmee is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “reborn + esteemed”. In 2025 it ranked 1,779th for girls in the UK (17 babies) and 1,534th for girls in the US (138 babies).

What does Renesmee mean?

Modern: blend of Renée and Esme

“reborn + esteemed”

Coined by Stephenie Meyer for Bella and Edward's daughter in Breaking Dawn, from Bella's mother Renée and Edward's adoptive mother Esme.

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

Renesmee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the UK and 138 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Renesmee in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,779th among girls
Babies in 2025
17 about 1 in 16,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 48% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were named Renesmee, making it the 1,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 845th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 59 girls.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 7 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Renesmee than any year since 2012.

Half of all the girls named Renesmee in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 42 girls in the UK were given Renesmee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #822, up from #1,779 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 1,719th in England and Wales.

2010Busiest: 59 in 20182025
Renesmee in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202517#1,779
202428#1,248
202334#1,075
202236#1,027
202138#993
202046#845
201947#849
201859#731
201738#1,027
201635#1,073
201534#1,108
201431#1,189
201318#1,727
201210#2,666
20115#4,244
20103#5,938

How popular is Renesmee in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,534th among girls
Babies in 2025
138 about 1 in 12,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady much the same
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 138 girls in the US were named Renesmee, making it the 1,534th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,398th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 175 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

Half of all the girls named Renesmee in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 185 girls in the US were given Renesmee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,105, up from #1,534 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 175 in 20242025
Renesmee in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025138#1,534
2024175#1,314
2023136#1,557
2022165#1,387
2021163#1,354
2020156#1,398
2019144#1,508
2018150#1,461
2017129#1,665
2016155#1,480
2015129#1,655
2014135#1,590
2013135#1,587
201260#2,865
201133#4,352
201047#3,408
200918#7,063

Nicknames for Renesmee

Names like Renesmee

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

Other spellings of Renesmee

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Sources

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

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