Renate
Renate was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 1,265 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Renate and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 47 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Renate by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Renate mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Renate is “a female given name from Latin, popular in Germany from the 1930's to the 1950's, equivalent to English Renée”
Borrowed from Latin Renata.
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Renate?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,748, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1961, the peak
Renate peaked in 1961, when 67 girls were given it, #1,370 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #14,748 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,208 | 4.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,031 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,145 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,781 | 3.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,791 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,343 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,996 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,133 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,005 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #11,782 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,590 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,176 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,320 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,903 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,497 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,185 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,067 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,573 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,251 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,677 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,407 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,962 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,581 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,992 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,512 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,810 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,791 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,623 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,723 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,919 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,302 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,653 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,090 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,475 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,289 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,342 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,493 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,155 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,874 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,816 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,525 | 30.6 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,554 | 28.5 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,706 | 23.9 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,701 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,370 | 33.2 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,668 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,546 | 24.7 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,623 | 21.9 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,742 | 19.1 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,789 | 17.9 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,264 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,432 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,491 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,653 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,939 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,616 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,138 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,133 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,662 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,877 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,894 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,155 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,851 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,107 | 8.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,681 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,843 | 4.8 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,183 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Renate a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Renate has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Renate: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Renate, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,265 Americans ever recorded as Renate. The median Renate alive today is 60 years old; half are between 47 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 5,847 people named Renate (5,837 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 18 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 449 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 377 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 179 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 53 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 24,685 babies since 1880, Renate is the third most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 665 babies recorded by SSA was a Renate (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Renate
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Renate and names like it
- Compare Renate and RenataBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sRenate peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Renate since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Renate: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Renate.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Renate alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.