Renato

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Renato is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ.

rarermore common
  • MZMozambique1 in 125◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 722
  • PHPhilippines1 in 795

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

≈315K ●

across 8 countries

#434 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
290 ●

823K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 722 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

RenatoLatin · Portuguese●5M records
רנטוHebrew · Hebrew●813 records
ᲠენატოGeorgian · Georgian●15 records
ΡενατοGreek · Greek●4 records
레나토Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled רנטו in FR France, IL Israel.

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●

From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ. Feminine form: Renata.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Renato is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#94293,159358K rec.1 in 722330KRenato245
PH Philippines#65210,220185K rec.——Renato102
CL Chile#24359,3744.6K rec.—513Renato114
PE Peru#50459,34446K rec.——Renato84
AR Argentina#83142,75227K rec.—228Renato87
IT Italy#24136,22730K rec.—56Renato166
MX Mexico#74330,51124K rec.—104Renato143
VE Venezuela—12,1405.6K rec.——Renato38
US United States—9,62592K rec.1 in 35K9.6KRenato290
PT Portugal#1309,1553.5K rec.—listedRenato138
GB United Kingdom—4,9894.2K rec.——Renato106
PY Paraguay#3574,6953.3K rec.——Renato26

Roughly 293K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 722). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese5M86%
  • English373K6%
  • Spanish275K5%
  • Croatian34K1%
  • Italian33K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese5,045,00286%
English372,9736%
Spanish274,5855%
Croatian33,5411%
Italian32,5971%

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◐

Renato is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name39K records spelled Renato23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, United States, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Czech

    Also written Ренато, Řenato, Renátó, Renáto, R̶e̶n̶a̶t̶o̶

  • French given name17K records spelled Renato7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Rénato, Re-Nato, Renátó, Ręñåtõ, Rénätö

  • Indonesian given name8.3K records spelled Renato3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Renátó

  • a separate given name8.1K records spelled Renato3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, India

    Also written Renátó, Rénato

  • Albanian given name6.8K records spelled Renato6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Réñàtõ, Rêñätó, Rèñãtõ, Réñáto, Rénato

  • Lao given name2.8K records spelled Renato11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, Philippines, Italy

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Renat, เรนาโต, เรนาโต้, เรนาตู, Renatō

  • Polish given name1.8K records spelled Renato3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Italy, Peru

    Also written Renató, Renátó

  • Swahili given name1.5K records spelled Renato6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Italy, Peru

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Renátó

51 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●

Renato 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.

  • From Late Latin Rendtus ‘reborn’, = French René. See French supplement. Feminine form: Renata.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English René

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

  • In French, Forme italienne de René, du latin *renatus* « renaissant ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., itaHenische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Nato nuovamente

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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●

02040608019201940196019802000202069 · 2010

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Renato in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1911–2025
Yearrecords
19115
19137
191415
191512
191617
191721
191811
191915
192024
192119
192224
192319
192419
192515
192611
192714
192816
192914
193011
193124
193212
19339
19357
193611
193711
19386
19397
19409
194110
19428
19436
19468
194712
194810
19496
195011
195120
195215
195321
19549
195512
195613
195716
195815
195918
196019
196124
196220
196319
196423
196534
196631
196727
196826
196949
197046
197133
197245
197347
197451
197540
197636
197741
197854
197940
198044
198138
198230
198343
198453
198542
198633
198731
198834
198944
199038
199138
199230
199349
199438
199541
199638
199757
199845
199938
200056
200150
200247
200351
200444
200539
200660
200739
200845
200939
201069
201149
201232
201340
201453
201550
201643
201748
201843
201934
202043
202147
202240
202330
202455
202542

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 111 years between 1911–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Renato Castellani, b. 1913Renato Dulbecco, b. 1914Renato Ruggiero, b. 1930Renato Salvatori, b. 1933Mario Capecchi, b. 1937Renato Scarpa, b. 1939Renato Carpentieri, b. 1943Renato Berta, b. 1945Alesso, b. 1991Renato Sanches, b. 1997

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 83 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Renato
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—330K#147
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022293K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—292K#102
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.6K#2,518
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20214.2K#232
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.9K#325
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20213.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20202.5K—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.9K#226
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.3K#102
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20231.1K#2,961
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1K#2,782

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 863 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Renato?
We estimate roughly 315 thousand people bear Renato (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Renato have the most bearers?
We estimate about 293 thousand people bear Renato in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled renato.
How common is Renato compared with other names?
In Brazil, Renato is the 94th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
Is Renato a male or female name?
Renato is a male 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 Renato mean?
Recorded meaning: From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ.
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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, “Renato” — the 94th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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