Renato
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xenatu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Renato is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 554(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 722
- PTPortugal≈1 in 880
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 554 (inferred from the name graph)
293,159 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ. Feminine form: Renata.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Renato counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #67 | 293,159 | 1 in 722 | 330K | Renato | 252 |
| PH Philippines | #55 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 554 | — | Renato | 112 |
| IT Italy | #204 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 56 | Renato | 174 |
| CL Chile | #282 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 513 | Renato | 120 |
| PT Portugal | #114 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 880 | listed | Renato | 147 |
| HR Croatia | — | 4,207 | 1 in 1K | 4.2K | — | 4 |
293,159 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Renato is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Late Latin Rendtus ‘reborn’, = French René. See French supplement. Feminine form: Renata.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English René
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme italienne de René, du latin *renatus* « renaissant ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., itaHenische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Nato nuovamente
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Renato Castellanib. 1913ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1913–1985)
- Renato Dulbeccob. 1914ITItalian-born American virologist (1914-2012)
- Renato Ruggierob. 1930ITItalian politician (1930-2013)
- Renato Salvatorib. 1933ITItalian actor (1934–1988)
- Mario Capecchib. 1937USnot in their usual namemolecular geneticist and Nobel laureate
- Renato Scarpab. 1939ITItalian film actor (1939–2021)
- Renato Carpentierib. 1943ITItalian actor, stage director and playwright
- Renato Bertab. 1945CHSwiss cinematographer
- Alessob. 1991SEnot in their usual nameSwedish DJ and music producer
- Renato Sanchesb. 1997PTPortuguese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 330K | #147 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 293K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 292K | #102 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 4.2K | #232 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #102 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 513 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 56 | #256 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Renato come from?
- From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ. Feminine form: Renata. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Renato mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the Late Latin name Renatus ‘reborn’, popular among early Christians as a name celebrating spiritual rebirth in Christ.
- In which country does Renato have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 293 thousand people named Renato, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled renato.
- How do you pronounce Renato?
- A machine transcription gives /xenatu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Renato a male or female name?
- Renato is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Renato?
- In the etymology graph, René, Rinat and Renat are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Renato?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 293,159 people named Renato in 2022, about 1 in 722 residents.
- How common is Renato compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Renato is the 67th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Renato?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/renatoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Renato” — the 67th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.