Renate — girls' name

What the Data Says About Renate

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,265 babies named Renate between 1917 and 2020, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Renate currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 67 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Renate performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 452 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Renate shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 62 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Renate in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Renate in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,265 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.