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Thoughts on old family name Renfred

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armt · 16/02/2025 09:56

We've been looking through family names and came across Renfred which is funny as both Ren and Fred our in our top list.

Is it a complete no?

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UpMyself · 17/02/2025 17:58

If you like it, use it @armt .

RuthW · 17/02/2025 15:58

I like it

DoItBetter · 17/02/2025 13:59

Andoutcomethewolves · 16/02/2025 13:07

I prefer just Ren personally (possibly due to having a mild crush on the singer/songwriter Ren 😅 in his case that was his full name at birth) but Renfred is growing on me! It doesn't sound made up to me and it's nice that there's the family connection

I thought of him first too. He does an amazing version of a Fred Again song so Renfred seems a perfect combo.

I like the name Ren though.

ThatUniqueKoala · 17/02/2025 13:55

I love it!

MagentaRocks · 17/02/2025 13:54

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 16/02/2025 15:03

I immediately thought of the Handmaid's Tale.

Me too

Waterboatlass · 17/02/2025 13:52

ContemporaneousNotes · 16/02/2025 16:08

Ren is the heroine in this film series.

If you like it, use it. Renfred or Ren.

Ren is the hero of Ren and Stimpy. One of them.

partisanhomecrowd · 16/02/2025 16:27

Renfred, seeing as your family has personal connections to the name especially, is fine, why not? Surnames as first names are popular. The name Ren is an actual gender neutral name, and Fred, there are a few diminutives; Fred, Freddie.

MumonabikeE5 · 16/02/2025 16:09

I think it is a great formal first name, always Ren or Fred as Known As name

ContemporaneousNotes · 16/02/2025 16:08

Ren is the heroine in this film series.

If you like it, use it. Renfred or Ren.

PowerhouseOfTheCell · 16/02/2025 16:03

I’d just pray he was in the same class as baby Boden so he wouldn’t be the kid with the worst name. Sorry OP!

Maybe as a middle name

SuffolkBargeWoman · 16/02/2025 16:01

Dracula

Sorry!

Waterboatlass · 16/02/2025 15:58

Renfred... I don't definitely hate if I think of it as an old family name it but I think it's one to ask yourself in good faith whether you'd enjoy introducing yourself as it. It's a bit try hard to me and doesn't have a fantastic sound. Middle name as a family nod, great. First name, I've heard worse but I would give it some careful thought.

UsernameIsHarderThanBabyName · 16/02/2025 15:39

I actually really like it

AubernFable · 16/02/2025 15:13

WaltzingWaters · 16/02/2025 15:01

👆🏼Literally everything I was going to say.

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Great minds and all that!

HedgehogB · 16/02/2025 15:12

SheRaaPrincessOfPower · 16/02/2025 10:49

Or a 1960s bungalow lived in by Rena and Fred.

Wasn't Fred West's first wife called Rena?

Yes

myrtleWilson · 16/02/2025 15:11

I had Ren as a possible name for Dd if she’d been a boy. I still like it!

Lou205 · 16/02/2025 15:09

Ren and Fred are both nice, why ruin them?

Moreteaandchocolate · 16/02/2025 15:09

I personally prefer Ren or Fred separately to Renfred - I think because it’s not familiar to me as a name and I would get fed of explaining it to people after a while!

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 16/02/2025 15:03

I immediately thought of the Handmaid's Tale.

WaltzingWaters · 16/02/2025 15:01

AubernFable · 16/02/2025 14:23

I immediately thought of Offred and Renfield- neither of which are ideal. Ren is lovely, with Japanese origins and very much a name, but Fred isn’t pretty imo.

👆🏼Literally everything I was going to say.

PenneyFouryourthoughts · 16/02/2025 14:59

Despite my association with long forgotten cartoon Ren & Stimpy I think it's quite nice.

ren and stimpy film GIF
Footle · 16/02/2025 14:58

I knew a Renford

sankacoolrunnings · 16/02/2025 14:57

Sounds like Betfred.

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AubernFable · 16/02/2025 14:23

I immediately thought of Offred and Renfield- neither of which are ideal. Ren is lovely, with Japanese origins and very much a name, but Fred isn’t pretty imo.