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Renate

Girls' name

Feminine form of Renatus

Renate has been given to 1,265 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Renate, 2020

1 in 557,000

Renate over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Renate: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Renatus

Latin

What Renate means

Renate is a feminine form of Renatus.

Origin, language, and formation

Renate is used in Dutch, Estonian, German and Norwegian. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Renatus and Renée.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,265 girls were recorded with the name Renate between 1917 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,370 in 1961.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Renate?

Renate had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Renate sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Renate. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Renates were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Renate was born before 1965 — so the typical Renate is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,190
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (452).

Is Renate rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (67)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,370
1961

Spellings of Renate

Renate is not the most common spelling — Renee is, with 61.8% against Renate's 0.42%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Renate is used

Across 1910–2025, Renate was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 461,928 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Renate has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Renate around the world

Where Renate ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1931–1992
    #3,670
    in 1992
  • Norway
    1880–2010
    #545
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1949–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Renate by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,370
1961
Peak year
1961
67 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
1,265
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Renate

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Renate

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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