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I know that “Rena” could be coming from the French word “renard”, but I’m not sure about “Renna”.
~Regina

Maybe from Renée with means “reborn” they sound similar but don’t look it. Or maybe from Reina, which means “queen”.

"Born', as part of a name, would usually be a form of 'natus' or 'nata', meaning 'born' in Latin. And 're' can mean 'again', but then you'd only have one n: Rena. So that wouldn't work. Maybe a short form of Emerentia? (I know someone whose full name is Rentia.)

In what kind of context did you find it? It is a pretty simple word form that probably has different meanings in many languages.

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P.S. I just added a Germanic (Dutch and Frisian) etymology of Renna that is quite different from a derivation from Renate to the submitted names database.

This message was edited 5/5/2022, 5:48 AM