Baby name
RISING
🇧🇷 🇫🇷 Renan
/reh · NAHN/
Meaning
“To sing or to shout for joy”
Hebrew origin, from ranan, meaning to sing or to shout for joy; also associated with the French scholar Ernest Renan, giving it both biblical roots and 19th-century intellectual prestige.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Feels scholarly and underused in France; in Brazil it reads as contemporary and fresh.
The cultural moment.
Gaining popularity in Brazil from the 2000s onward; also present in French intellectual naming traditions.