How would you pronounce the baby name Renie?

[TheCleverMember]

We are thinking of naming our daughter "Renie"

How would you pronounce it if you read it?

Ren-ee
Ree-nee
Ruh-nah

Thanks

Ree-nee
My Granny was Renie (Irene)

Same.

Just saw this on reddit too. Everyone's saying the same thing about the indigestion tablets I see.

How would you pronounce it? If you are thinking of using it you must have a pronunciation in mind.

Cut your losses OP, and give your dear child the gift of 80 odd years of not having her name mispronounced or mis spelt.

Renee

Raine

Irene

We thought the same as you but decided to celebrate her not having any French blood but having been born on Bastille Day and called her Paris Cetamoll.

Rennie as in the indigestion tablets

And if you go French with Irene it's pronounced Ir ren

Reenee. Definitely not Rennie.

REE-nee

No matter how it’s pronounced it sounds average.

I think Renie is cute, but you should put Irene on the birth certificate. Then she can say “Renie, short for Irene”. Then people won’t forget or be confused.

Ree nee

Throw this one back OP and start again.

reenee

Thank you for the morning lolz!! I’d say Ree-nee.

Phoeebetically Ren-ie with a short first e. The only one I know was my dp’s grandmother, who was Reenee- short for Irene but spelled Rene.

Don’t give your dd a name she has to explain every time.

Yes, I have an aunt who spells her name Rene, but pronounces it Reenee, as it's a nickname for Irene.

I'd probably wait for you to say it first so I didn't mispronounce it. Or if that didn't work I'd ask you how to pronounce it.

Ree-nee? Or maybe Rennie? Either way it’s not great, sorry. If you want it said Ren-ay like Zellweger then spell it Renée with the accent and the double ee

Ren-ee

Rennie like the indigestion tabs

How do you want it pronounced? And any reason for that spelling rather than Reenie/Renee/Rennie?

For what it’s worth, I like Reenie the most, but would probably go with Irene or Irina and use Reenie as a nickname.

Minor problem with Renée in the UK is that you can’t register the accent or include in passport.

How would you like it pronounced, op?
If you like ruh-nay, then spell it Renée, as in Zellweger.
If you want ree-nee, then spell it Rene. She’ll probably get some mispronunciations along the way, but hopefully not ‘Rennie’!

@loislovesstewie on my phone you just hold the letter you want, and it comes up with all the accents etc. Don’t know if yours is the same? 🙂

I agree with everyone else who says: how do you intend it to be pronounced? It's impossible to tell from just the spelling you've given.

There's a reason why, for example, 'Renée' is spelt that way - the accent and the double e indicates it's 'ruh-NAY'. If you want it to sound like that, spell it like that.

If it’s REN-nie you’re after, I'd spell it 'Renny' - probably not with an ie and one n (are you trying to avoid it looking like indigestion tablets?)

If it's REE-nee, like a nickname for Irene, I'd think that was a very old-fashioned name for a small child now. I knew several elderly 'Reenies' when I was a child in the 70s. I never saw it written down because it was a nickname.

To rhyme with genie. And in my head it would only be screeched as a League of Gentlemen quote.

Another reenee here. It was my great aunt’s name.