Renu

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Elena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Елена in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more, Helen in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 1 more and Helena in BR Brazil, PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Renu is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name38K records spelled Renu20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Danish

  Also written Reṇu, Renú, Rënū, Reñu, Renü

• a separate given name9.2K records spelled Renu6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Renú, Reṇu, Rēnū, Reṇū, Renū

• French given name1.1K records spelled Renu4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, France, United States, Spain

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Rénu, Renú

• a separate given name167 records spelled Renu2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Rènű

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Renu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• dust; sand; pollen; an atom.

  as a name·The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

• In Serbo-Croatian, dative/locative singular of ren

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Asturian, reindeer

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 106 years between 1896–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Renu Dahalb. 1976NPNepalese politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 286 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Renu?

We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Renu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Renu have the most bearers?

Renu is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.

How common is Renu compared with other names?

In Russia, Renu is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Renu a male or female name?

Renu is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Renu mean?

Recorded meaning: name of several men (P)