Rénier Surname Guide

Wikidata records Rénier as a French family name. Counting heads is the honest place to start with Rénier.

Rénier coat of arms

Sharing the Rénier name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Where the name comes from

Where a surname's origin is uncertain, as with Rénier, the best clues come from your own ancestors' parish and civil records.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Rénier with 527 bearers, at rank 41,303. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. Between 1891 and 2000, 4,584 babies born in France were registered as Rénier, with the most births in 1951–1960. Births ran at 186 in 1891–1900 and 485 in 1991–2000. Get the complete Rénier report, with a museum-style coat of arms.