Renault
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Renault is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Louis, French jurist, pacifist.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DMDominica1 in 2.9K
- BEBelgium1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Louis, French jurist, pacifist
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Renault counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #141 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 2.5K | Renault | 304 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Renault | 2 |
| US United States | — | 513 | 1 in 648K | 542 | Renault | 128 |
| BR Brazil | — | 479 | 1 in 442K | 479 | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Renault | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 228 | 1 in 51K | 228 | Renault | 38 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 60 | 1 in 140K | 60 | — | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 26 | 1 in 2.9K | 26 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Renault 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.
In English, French automobile
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Hungarian, A French motorcar manufacturer.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, francuski konstruktor automobila; 1898. osnovao poznatu automobilsku tvornicu
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cécile Renaultb. 1774FRFrench royalist
- Jean Louis Renaultb. 1843FRFrench jurist (1843–1918)
- Fernand Renaultb. 1864FRone of the brothers that founded Renault (1864-1909)
- Marcel Renaultb. 1872FRFrench racing driver (1872–1903)
- Louis Renaultb. 1877FRFrench industrialist
- Gilbert Renaultb. 1904FRFrench resistance member
- Mary Renaultb. 1905GBEnglish novelist (1905–1983)
- Maxime Renaultb. 1990FRFrench cyclist
- Nicole Carbonib. 1991USnot in their usual nameCosta Rican model
- Brune RenaultFRactress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 114 | #50,487 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 54 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54 | #63,204 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 50 | #29,151 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #50,487 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 5 | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Renault mean, and where does it come from?
- Louis, French jurist, pacifist Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Renault have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Renault in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled renault.
- Where is Renault most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Renault is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Renault?
- In the United States, the national register counted 513 people named Renault in 2010, about 1 in 648 thousand residents.
- How common is Renault compared with other names?
- In France, Renault is the 141st most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/renaultThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Renault” — the 141st most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.