Lïkë
surname · Latin script
Lïkë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similar.
- ALAlbania1 in 134K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 480K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)
258 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
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)
- Middle Englishliken(measured from records)
- Old Englishlīcian“to like“to like, to please”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*līkēn(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*līkāną(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-“image; likeness; similarity”(measured from records)
- Middle Englishlike“pleasure“pleasure, will, like”(measured from records)
Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), German Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic líka (“to like”). Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lïkë 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 258 | 1 in 1.3M | 1.2K | — | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | 36 | 1 in 480K | 36 | — | 2 |
| AL Albania | 23 | 1 in 134K | 14 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 22 | — | — |
258 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lïkë mean, and where does it come from?
- Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similar… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Lïkë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 258 people named Lïkë, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lïkë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lïkë is densest in Albania — about 1 in 134 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lïkë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 258 people named Lïkë in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%AFk%C3%ABThe 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, “Lïkë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.