Renette
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Renette is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A specialized excretory cell in some nematode worms.
- USUnited States1 in 440K◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 41K
- JMJamaica1 in 189K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈843 ●
- Sources
- 142 ●
- 1 in 250K ◐
across 5 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
A specialized excretory cell in some nematode worms.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | 829 | 809 rec. | — | — | Renette | 36 |
| US United States | 756 | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 440K | 756 | Renette | 142 |
| PH Philippines | 422 | 354 rec. | — | — | Renette | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | 340 | 326 rec. | — | — | Renette | 22 |
| AU Australia | 218 | 208 rec. | — | 1 | Renette | 29 |
| CA Canada | 183 | 193 rec. | — | — | Renette | 23 |
| IT Italy | 56 | 58 rec. | — | — | Renette | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 55 | 29 rec. | 1 in 314K | 55 | Renette | 8 |
| CN China | 40 | 40 rec. | — | — | Renette | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 25△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 408K | 25 | — | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | 25 | 25 rec. | — | — | Renette | 1 |
| EG Egypt | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Renette | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English12K69%
- French1.8K11%
- 8205%
- Spanish6644%
- German2802%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 11,516 | 69% |
| French | 1,838 | 11% |
| 820 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 664 | 4% |
| German | 280 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Renette is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Neubildung, Erweite rung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, reinette (group of apple cultivars)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 7 |
| 1943 | 7 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 7 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 11 |
| 1949 | 11 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 11 |
| 1952 | 14 |
| 1953 | 12 |
| 1954 | 16 |
| 1955 | 13 |
| 1956 | 24 |
| 1957 | 24 |
| 1958 | 15 |
| 1959 | 21 |
| 1960 | 32 |
| 1961 | 26 |
| 1962 | 22 |
| 1963 | 21 |
| 1964 | 24 |
| 1965 | 21 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 21 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1990 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1935–1990. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Renée Soutendijkb. 1957NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Renette?
- We estimate roughly 843 people bear Renette (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Renette have the most bearers?
- Renette is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled renette.
- Is Renette a male or female name?
- Renette 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 Renette mean?
- Recorded meaning: A specialized excretory cell in some nematode worms.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Renette”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.