Renate
A Latin name at root, from a word meaning "reborn". Just 125 women in Poland carry it, and almost no girls get it now: most Poles have never met one.
Renate Pronunciation
Renate is pronounced re-NAH-te (/rɛˈnatɛ/).
What Renate means
Where Renate comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Renate begins in Latin. The root is renatus, from re- meaning again and natus meaning born. Early Christians used the word for baptism, which they counted as a second birth. The name arrived already holding the sense of reborn, in Polish odrodzona.
German-speaking families made Renate their own. In Germany the name climbed through the first half of the twentieth century and reached many girls born in the 1930s and 1940s. The Latin ancestor Renatus belonged to men as well, and the philosopher known in Latin as Renatus Cartesius signed his work under that form.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. Among the many Annas and Katarzynas, one Renate sits with a German spelling and a Latin past. The name keeps its shape, with no diminutives to soften it. What it says has not changed since the Latin: reborn, odrodzona.
How many people are named Renate
1 in 180351 women in Poland is named Renate. 125 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3005 among female names.
Renate as a middle name
Renate is a first name for 125 women in Poland and a middle name for another 83, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 730th, between Kama (83) and Valerie (82).
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#728 Joanne83
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#729 Kama83
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#730 Renate83
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#731 Valerie82
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#732 Ilza81