Renate

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Renate is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Latin, popular in Germany from the 1930's to the 1950's, equivalent to English Renée.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 462◐
  • ATAustria1 in 946
  • LVLatvia1 in 965

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈26K ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
252 ●

350K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 965 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

RenateLatin · German●306K records
ΡενατεGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Renāte in LV Latvia, RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

a female given name from Latin, popular in Germany from the 1930's to the 1950's, equivalent to English Renée

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Renate is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#96262,308247K rec.—3Renate199
AT Austria#16917,4939.7K rec.—613Renate126
NL Netherlands#36811,2876.3K rec.1 in 1.5K11KRenate93
US United States—5,83763K rec.1 in 57K5.8KRenate252
GB United Kingdom—4,0993.7K rec.—listedRenate65
NO Norway#2644,0862.7K rec.1 in 1.3K15KRenate66
AU Australia—3,4673.1K rec.—3Renate111
CH Switzerland#2542,4351.4K rec.——Renate69
LV Latvia#3051,949△198 rec.1 in 9651.9KRenāte28
CA Canada—1,6751.6K rec.——Renate62
BE Belgium—1,1051.1K rec.——Renate44
SE Sweden—1,093△534 rec.1 in 9.3K1.1KRenate32

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German306K64%
  • English67K14%
  • Western Frisian19K4%
  • Portuguese16K3%
  • Norwegian Bokmål15K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German306,01964%
English66,81214%
Western Frisian19,2044%
Portuguese15,5483%
Norwegian Bokmål15,0043%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Renate is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name26K records spelled Renate7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Renāte, Renaté

  • French given name4.1K records spelled Renate6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Rénate, Rénaté, Renaté, Renāte

  • a separate given name3.2K records spelled Renate2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland

    Also written Renāte

  • Polish given name2.5K records spelled Renate17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Ренате, Renāte, Renáte

  • Finnish given name1.7K records spelled Renate6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Netherlands, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Renāte, Renáte

  • a separate given name900 records spelled Renate3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Netherlands

    Also written Renāte, Renatè

  • Turkish given name758 records spelled Renate4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Renāte

  • Swahili given name532 records spelled Renate6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Renaté, Rènate

  • Portuguese given name389 records spelled Renate151 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Poland, Czechia, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Polish, English

    Also written Renata, Рената, Renáta, 'Renata

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Renate is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Reborn or reincarnated.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, ) Renata: weibl. Vom., weibHche

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Dutch, a female given name, from Latin Renata, the feminine form of Renatus meaning reborn

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian, a female given name from Latin, popular in the 1970s and 1980s

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, vocative of Renātus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040608019201940196019802000202067 · 1961

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Renate in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1917–2020
Yearrecords
19175
19345
19357
19379
19385
19396
19405
19417
19428
19486
194912
195010
19519
195217
195319
195421
195524
195636
195739
195844
195950
196046
196167
196245
196346
196454
196554
196640
196740
196832
196928
197033
197135
197213
197322
197410
197515
197617
197720
197815
197915
198021
198124
198220
198310
19848
19859
198613
198715
198812
198914
199012
199114
199211
19938
19945
199510
19977
19985
19998
20005
20015
20035
20067
20076
20086
20198
20206

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 68 years between 1917–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Renate Ewert, b. 1933Silvia Sommerlath, b. 1943Renate Schmidt, b. 1943Renate Krößner, b. 1945Renate Stecher, b. 1950Renate Künast, b. 1955Gabriele Renate Homey, b. 1963Renate Götschl, b. 1975Renate Lingor, b. 1975Renate Reinsve, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 59 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Renate
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—15K#309
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—11K#205
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—7.9K#475
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.8K#3,536
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20254.1K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,601
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1K#9,097
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022906—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—901#8,856
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2023613#1,838
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020526—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—356#2,667

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 530 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Renate?
We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Renate (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Renate have the most bearers?
Renate is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled renate.
How common is Renate compared with other names?
In Germany, Renate is the 96th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Renate a male or female name?
Renate is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Renate mean?
Recorded meaning: a female given name from Latin, popular in Germany from the 1930's to the 1950's, equivalent to English Renée
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Renate” — the 96th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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