Vīķe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: common bleak (small river fish of the family Cyprinidae, species Alburnus alburnus)
Vīķe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 537K
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
694 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vike in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden and 1 more.
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)
common bleak (small river fish of the family Cyprinidae, species Alburnus alburnus)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vīķe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 694 | 1 in 7.9K | 694 | Vike | 35 |
| US United States | 159 | 1 in 2.1M | 166 | Vike | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | Vike | 6 |
| IN India | 11 | 1 in 121M | 11 | — | 2 |
| UG Uganda | — | — | — | Vike | 1 |
694 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Vīķe 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 Latvian, Kaulzivju klases karpu dzimtas suga ("Alburnus alburnus"), neliela slaida saldūdens zivs ar tumšu, zilgani zaļu muguru un sudrabbaltiem sāniem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Vaira Vīķe-Freibergab. 1937LV6th President of Latvia
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vīķe mean, and where does it come from?
- common bleak (small river fish of the family Cyprinidae, species Alburnus alburnus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Vīķe have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 694 people named Vīķe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vike.
- Where is Vīķe most common?
- Vīķe is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vīķe?
- In Norway, the national register counted 694 people named Vīķe, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C4%AB%C4%B7eThe 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, “Vīķe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.