Räcke
surname · Latin script
Räcke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 231K
- DEGermany≈1 in 323K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Räcke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 231K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Racke in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Raecke in BE Belgium.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Räcke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Racke | 48 |
| US United States | 161 | 1 in 2.1M | 204 | Racke | 94 |
| IN India | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Racke | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 45as Raecke | 1 in 260K | 45 | Raecke | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 14 | Racke | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 677K | — | Racke | 6 |
| FI Finland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Racke | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 9as Raecke | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Räcke 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 Swedish, railing, handrail, guard rail
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)
- Horst Räckeb. 1934DEGerman illustrator and painter (1934-2007)
- Nina Räckeb. 2001DEGerman 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Räcke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 248 people named Räcke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled racke.
- How common is the name Räcke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 161 people named Räcke in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Räcke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A4ckeThe 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, “Räcke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.