Renske
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rənskə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Renske is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 99K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 163K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
9,053 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Renske 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #451 | 9,053 | 1 in 1.9K | 9K | Renske | 105 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Renske | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 5 | Renske | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 944K | 1 | Renske | 37 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Renske | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | Renske | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Renske | 5 |
9,053 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Renske is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, synonym of rense (“to clean”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Renske Titia Boonb. 1900NLDutch garden and landscape architect
- Renske Niewegb. 1911NLDutch politician and musicologist (1911–2002)
- Renske Helmer-Englebertb. 1969NLDutch politician
- Renske Leijtenb. 1979NLDutch former politician
- Renske Taminiaub. 1979NLDutch singer
- Renske Endelb. 1983NLDutch artistic gymnast
- Renske de Greefb. 1984NLDutch writer and columnist
- Renske van Geelb. 1985NLDutch field hockey player
- Renske van Beekb. 1989NLDutch Paralympic snowboarder
- Renske Annelize Hoffb. 1994NLliterary historian, Utrecht University
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9K | #256 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7.5K | #497 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2008 | 74 | #144 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2010 | 71 | #153 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2009 | 55 | #190 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 53 | #257 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2011 | 48 | #221 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2013 | 44 | #248 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2012 | 40 | #268 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,016 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2014 | 23 | #445 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2007 | 21 | #472 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Renske?
- A machine transcription gives /rənskə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- Is Renske a male or female name?
- Renske is a female 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 Renske?
- In the etymology graph, Lorena, Laurence and Loren are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Renske have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Renske, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled renske.
- Where is Renske most common?
- Renske is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Renske?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9,053 people named Renske, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Renske compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Renske is the 451st most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Renske?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/renskeThe 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, “Renske” — the 451st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.