Renette
Feminine · “reborn”
Renette puts the little -ette ending on Renée, making a three-syllable name with the stress at the end. It sounds almost exactly like reinette, an old French family of apples whose name means little queen.
How old is the name Renette?
Renette first appears in US birth records in 1935 — 90 years ago. The typical Renette alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 500 people named Renette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Renette most popular?
Renette peaked in 1960, reaching #2013 nationally. See the whole 1960 chart.
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Where it comes from
From renatus to Renette
The story of Renette
Renée was a baptismal name meaning reborn, and French added the fond -ette to make its little form. The same sound belongs to the reinettes, old French dessert apples, among them the russet reinette grise and the Reinette du Canada, whose name is usually explained as little queen. American families who chose Renette were most likely making Renée smaller, but the apple is there in the sound, and the record does not rule it out.
Meaningscholars disagree
reborn, through Renée
Renette is most likely a diminutive of Renée, from Latin renatus, reborn. It also sounds like the French reinette, little queen, a name for a group of apples. The record does not say which families had in mind.
How the name formed
- renatus
- Renée
- Renette
Related forms: Renée · Renata
Pronouncing Renette
ruh-NET
Stress on the last syllable.
Nicknames for Renette
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1935
- Most girls named
- 196032 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2013reached in 1960
- Change vs 1985
- −40.0%6 in 1990, from 10
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Renette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Renée in French — related form
- Renata in Italian — related form
Renettes among us
people named Renette are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Renette sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It sounds French and gentle.
- Ren and Nettie give two different short forms.
- It is rare, so she will seldom share it.
- People will write Renée or Rennette.
- Its source is not settled, so the meaning depends on which road a family took.
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- How many Renettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Renette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Renette in 2025?
- Renette is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Renette will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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