Riké
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Riké is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 827 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages.
- NONorway1 in 21K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- DEGermany≈1 in 270Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
827 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rike in US United States, DE Germany, SG Singapore and 3 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)Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Riké is found
(measured from records)Riké 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 | 827 | 1 in 402K | 834 | Rike | 200 |
| DE Germany | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 272K | listed | Rike | 106 |
| NO Norway | 256 | 1 in 21K | 256 | — | 11 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Rike | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Rike | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Rike | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 198K | 6 | Rike | 13 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
827 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Riké 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 ljl, tie together
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
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 Riké mean, and where does it come from?
- Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 2 other sources.
- Is Riké a male or female name?
- Riké 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Riké?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 827 people named Riké, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rike. After it come Germany, Norway, Nigeria and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Riké most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Riké is densest in Norway — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Riké?
- In the United States, the national register counted 827 people named Riké in 2010, about 1 in 402 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Riké?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rik%C3%A9The 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, “Riké” — ranked 28407th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.