Given name & surname
Renette
Renette is a given name from French. It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1935. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Renette through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 567
- 0 boys · 567 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 762 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Renette’s family of names
Renette may belong to the same name family as RENNETTE. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Renette
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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