Reni
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Reni is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Guide, Italian painter.
- BRBrazil1 in 21K◐
- ALAlbania1 in 45K
- DKDenmark1 in 117K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- Sources
- 91 ●
- 1 in 21K ◐
across 12 countries
8.5K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Meaning & origin●
Guide, Italian painter
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 10,297△ | 5K rec. | 1 in 21K | 12K | Reni | 91 |
| VE Venezuela | 912 | 955 rec. | — | — | Reni | 17 |
| US United States | 471 | 520 rec. | 1 in 706K | 471 | Reni | 62 |
| AR Argentina | 359 | 353 rec. | — | — | Reni | 24 |
| MX Mexico | 300 | 304 rec. | — | — | Reni | 24 |
| PE Peru | 288 | 216 rec. | — | — | Reni | 22 |
| PH Philippines | 122 | 77 rec. | — | — | Reni | 8 |
| CL Chile | 102 | 49 rec. | — | 1 | Reni | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | 89 | 69 rec. | — | 1 | Reni | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 81△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 213K | 81 | — | 6 |
| AL Albania | 68 | — | 1 in 45K | 68 | — | — |
| CO Colombia | 67 | 41 rec. | — | — | Reni | 15 |
Roughly 10K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 21K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese168K66%
- Indonesian53K21%
- English16K6%
- Hindi4.3K2%
- Bulgarian2.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 168,204 | 66% |
| Indonesian | 53,430 | 21% |
| English | 15,948 | 6% |
| Hindi | 4,294 | 2% |
| Bulgarian | 2,766 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Reni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Hungarian, a diminutive of the female given name Renáta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, heard; perceived, as a scent
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, dative singular of rēn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, small of the back
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 1955–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Guido Renib. 1575ITBolognese painter (1575–1642)
- Reni Santonib. 1938USAmerican actor (1938–2020)
- Reni Yordanovab. 1953BGBulgarian rower
- Renate Zawrelb. 1959ATnot in their usual nameAustrian author
- Reni Assenovab. 1967BGbadminton player
- Rennie Yotovab. 1968BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian scholar
- Reni Pereirab. 1970BRBrazilian politician
- Reni Laneb. 1988USAmerican singer
- Reni Eddo-Lodgeb. 1989GBBritish journalist and author
- Reni Takagib. 1993JPJapanese singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 54 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,882 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.8K | #1,682 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.5K | #1,682 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 471 | #17,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 138 | #17,879 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 132 | #6,425 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 131 | #23,764 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 81 | #6,304 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 70 | #3,756 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 68 | #3,520 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 67 | #9,714 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Reni?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Reni (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Reni have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Reni in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled reni.
- Where is Reni most common?
- Reni is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Reni a male or female name?
- Reni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Reni mean?
- Recorded meaning: Guide, Italian painter
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Reni”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.