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Renate

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Renate is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
196167 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1917
1,265people given the name
Babies named Renate, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,265 girls have been named Renate in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 67 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 67 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1960s alone account for 36%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Renate
1910s5
1930s32
1940s38
1950s269
1960s452
1970s195
1980s146
1990s80
2000s34
2010s8
2020s6

In 1961, its biggest year

Renate was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.

Names that rose and fell with Renate

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.