Renner

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from OE rennan ‘to run’, ‘runner’; probably a messenger or courier; first attested Aluuinus Rennere c1134 Black (Govan) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/ˈʁɛnɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary

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Renner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 13,889 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Renner is also written เรนเนอร in Thai.

  • ATAustria≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 14K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 19Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Renner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

13,889 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
392 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Renner in other scripts: Thai

(measured from records)
RennerLatin(measured from records)
เรนเนอรRenner in Thai(measured from records)

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

How to pronounce Renner

  • German:/ˈʁɛnɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from OE rennan ‘to run’, ‘runner’; probably a messenger or courier; first attested Aluuinus Rennere c1134 Black (Govan)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

How Renner is read

(measured from records)

Renner is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English69%

    from OE rennan ‘to run’, ‘runner’; probably a messenger or courier; first attested Aluuinus Rennere c1134 Black (Govan)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    messenger, normally a mounted and armed military ser¬ vant, from an agent deriv. of ME, MHG rennen to run. 2. var. of Rayner i . Var. (of 2); Reisner.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • German17%

    agent noun of rennen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Berufsname zu mhd. renner 'der hin und her rennt, Bote, Reitknecht'; 8054 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

    teilweise zugehörig zu Rein-/Reinhard; 8054 Träger

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where the surname Renner is found

(measured from records)

Renner 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.

Where Renner is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States13,8891 in 24K14KRenner392
BR Brazil≈2,900 est.≈1 in 73K1.9K—3
GB United Kingdom≈2,600 est.≈1 in 27K413Renner111
AT Austria≈2,400 est.≈1 in 3.8K968—3
CA Canada≈1,900 est.≈1 in 21K3Renner79
CH Switzerland6121 in 14K612Renner22
NZ New Zealand≈280 est.≈1 in 19K—Renner44

13,889 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Switzerland

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rennêr, Rennér

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Renñer

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Реннер

52 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

(measured from records)

Renner is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of renne

    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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Karl Renner, b. 1870Paul Renner, b. 1878Jeremy Renner, b. 1971

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Renner,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Renner mean, and where does it come from?
from OE rennan ‘to run’, ‘runner’; probably a messenger or courier; first attested Aluuinus Rennere c1134 Black (Govan) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Renner?
In German /ˈʁɛnɐ/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Renner?
In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Renner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled renner. After it come Brazil, United Kingdom, Austria and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Renner?
In the United States, the national register counted 13,889 people named Renner in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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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, “Renner” — ranked 2448th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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