Renée
Renée is a French/Latin feminine given name.
Renée is the female form of René, with the extra –e making it feminine according to French grammar. The name Renée is the French form of the late Roman name Renatus and the meaning is reborn or born again. In medieval times, the meaning was associated with the Christian concept of being spiritually born again through baptism.
Renee was among the top 100 names given to girls in the United States in the late 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s and the early 1980s. It ranked as the 734th most popular name given to American girls in 2008 and is continuing to fall in popularity.
Given name
- Renée and Renato, British male/female vocal duo
- Renée Adorée, French actress of the silent era
- Renee Alway, American fashion model
- Renee Amoore, American health care advocate
- Renée Asherson, English actress
- Renée Aubin, Canadian Olympic fencer
- Renee Baillargeon, psychology professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Renee Bargh, Australian celebrity and TV presenter
- Renée Björling, Swedish actress
- Renée A. Blake, Caribbean American linguistics professor at New York University
- Renee Blount, American professional tennis player
- Renée Pietrafesa Bonnet, French/Uruguayan musician
- Renée Bordereau, French woman who disguised herself as a man
- Renee Botta, Chair of the Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies at the University of Denver
- Renée of Bourbon, daughter of Gilbert de Bourbon, Count of Montpensier
- Renée Bourque, American actress
- Renee Marie Bumb, district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Renee Byer, American documentary photojournalist
- Renée Carl, French actress of the silent era
- Renée Caroline de Roullay Créquy, Marquise de Créquy, French aristocrat
- Renée Carpentier-Wintz, French painter
- Renee Chatterton, Australian Olympic rower
- Renée Chen, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
- Renee Chenault-Fattah, Philadelphia news anchor
- Renee Cipriano, former director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
- Renee Cleary, American beach volleyball player
- Renee Cole, American beauty pageant contestant, Miss Maryland 1993
- Renée Coleman, Canadian-born American actress
- Renée Colliard, Swiss alpine skier
- Renée Cox, Jamaican-American artist, political activist and curator
- Renée de Dinteville, German-Roman monarch
- René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
- Renée Doria, French opera singer
- Renée Dunan, French writer
- Renee Ellmers, the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district
- Renée Estevez, American actress
- Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French stage and film actress
- Renée Faure, French actress
- Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga, Paraguayan poet and novelist
- Renee Fitzgerald, Irish camogie player
- Renee Flavell, New Zealand badminton player
- Renée Fleming, American soprano
- Renée Fox, American sociologist
- Renée of France, younger daughter of Louis XII of France
- Renée French, American comics writer and illustrator
- Renée French, American actress
- Renée Friedman, American egyptologist
- Renee Gadd, Argentine-born British film actress
- Renée Gailhoustet, French architect
- Renée Garilhe, French Olympic fencer
- Renée Geyer, Australian singer
- Renée Gill Pratt, local politician from New Orleans
- Renee Godfrey, American stage and motion picture actress and singer
- Renee Ghosh, Lebanese actress
- Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress, singer and songwriter
- Renee Grant-Williams, Nashville, Tennessee vocal coach
- Renée Green, American artist, writer and filmmaker
- Renee Griffin, aka Renee Allman, aka Renee Ammann, American actress
- Renee Harrison, Australian football player
- Renée Hayek, Lebanese writer and novelist
- Renee Hobbs, American educator, scholar and advocate for media literacy education
- Renée Houston, Scottish comedy actor and revue artist
- Renee Humphrey, American actress
- Renée Jeryd, Swedish social democratic politician
- Renée Jones, American actress
- Renée Jones-Bos, 44th representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States
- Renee Kelly, British stage and film actress
- Renée Kosel, member of the Illinois House of Representatives
- Renee Laravie, American Olympic swimmer
- Renee Leota, New Zealand association football player
- Renee Lim, Australian actress, television presenter and medical doctor
- Renee MacRae, a Scottish woman who is missing, presumed to have been murdered
- Renee Magee, American Olympic swimmer
- Renée Manfredi, American novelist
- Renee Marlin-Bennett, political science professor at Johns Hopkins University
- Renee McHugh, Philippines fashion model and beauty queen
- Renée J. Miller, computer science professor at University of Toronto, Canada
- Renée Montagne, American radio journalist
- Renee Montgomery, American basketball player
- Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist
- Renee Nele, German sculptor
- Renée Nicoux, French politician and member of the Senate of France
- Renee O'Connor, American actress, producer and director
- Marie-Renée Oget, French politician, member of the National Assembly
- Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
- Renee Peck, American writer
- Renee Percy, Canadian actress, writer, and comedian
- Renee Poetschka, Australian athlete
- Renee Powell, an American professional golfer
- Renee Props, American actress
- Renee Rabinowitz, Israeli-American psychologist and lawyer
- Renee Raudman, an actress and voice actress
- Renée Richards, American ophthalmologist, author and tennis player
- Renee Robinson, American dancer
- Renée Roca, American figure skater and choreographer
- Renee Roberts, English actress
- Renee Rollason, Australian football player
- Renee Rosnes, Canadian musician
- Renee Roszel, American writer
- Renée Saint-Cyr, French actress
- Renee Sands, American singer and actress
- Renée Scheltema, Dutch documentary filmmaker
- Renee Schulte, American politician
- Renee Schuurman, South African tennis player
- Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille, Swiss photographer
- Renee Sebastian, Filipino-American singer and songwriter
- Renee Short, British politician
- Renee Simons, Canadian curler
- Renée Simonsen, Danish model and writer
- Renée Sintenis, German artist
- Renée Slegers, Dutch international football midfielder
- Jamie Renée Smith, American actress
- Renée Felice Smith, American actress
- Renée Sonnenberg, Canadian curler
- Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
- Renee Spearman, gospel recording artist, singer, songwriter and producer
- Renée Stobrawa, German screenwriter and film actress
- Renee Stout, American artist
- Renee Tajima-Peña, film director and producer
- Renée Taylor, American actress
- Renee Taylor , New Zealand writer and playwright
- Renee Tenison, American model and actress
- Renee Torres, Mexican-American actress
- Renee Lynn Vicary, American competitive female bodybuilder
- Renée Victor, actress
- Renée Vivien, British poet writing in French
- Renée Weibel, Swiss actress
- Renee Williams, American woman believed to be the largest woman in the world at the time of her death
- Renee Young, Canadian Sports Broadcaster, Currently working with the WWE
- Renée Zellweger, American actress
In fiction
- Renée, a minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Renée, a character in Claymore
- Renee Blasey, a character that goes by the alias Wraith in the battle royale video game Apex Legends
- Renee Bradshaw, character in the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street
- Renée Divine Buchanan, character in the American soap opera One Life to Live
- Renée DuMonde, character in the television soap opera Days of our Lives
- Renée Dwyer, a character in the Twilight novel series
- Renee Montoya, a DC Comics comic book character
- Renee Perry, a character in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives
- Renée Rienne, character in the spy-fi television series Alias
- Renée de Villefort, first wife of Gérard de Villefort in Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo
- Renee Walker, a character in the TV series 24
- Renee, a character in the TV series Watchmen
Surname
- Lyne Renée, Belgian actress
Variants in different languages
- رينيه Arabic
- Rena English, Polish
- Renae English
- Renáta Czech, Hungarian, Slovak
- Renata Croatian, Czech, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovene, Spanish, Lithuanian
- Renate Dutch, French, German
- Renátka Czech
- Renča Czech
- Renea Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
- Renée Dutch, French
- Renee English
- Reneeke Dutch
- Reneetje Dutch
- Renia Polish
- Renita English, Spanish
- Renāte Latvian