Meaning & Origin
A female given name from French, alternative spelling of Renée.
Renee is a girl's and boy's baby name of French origin, the French feminine form of René — from the Latin Renatus meaning "reborn" or "born again," a name with deep baptismal symbolism in the Catholic tradition. Renee is an Americanized spelling of the French Renée.
Renee ranked in the U.S. top 50 girls' names in the 1960s and 1970s. Actress Renée Zellweger, whose Oscar-winning career spans Bridget Jones's Diary to Judy, is perhaps the name's most prominent current bearer. It has a light, French-accented quality — two syllables of unpretentious elegance.