Ulrika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ulrika är en femininform till → Ulrik
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/u0lri:ka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ulrika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 250(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 118K
- BJBenin≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
40,792 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Ulrika är en femininform till → Ulrik. Namnet kom in i Sverige efter Karl xi:s giftermål med Ulrika Eleonora av Danmark (1656–93). Deras dotter hette också Ulrika Eleonora (1688–1741) och var Sveriges regent 1719–20. Bägge dessa drottningar bidrog till namnets spridning under 1700-talet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska alma nackan 4 juli.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ulrika 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.
40,792 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Ulrika is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scandinavian form and German variant of ULRIKE . Pet form: Scandinavian: Ulla .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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)
- Ulrika Eleonora of Denmarkb. 1656DKqueen consort of Sweden (1656–1693)
- Ulrika Eleonorab. 1688SEqueen regnant of Sweden from 1718 to 1720 (1688–1741)
- Minna Canthb. 1844FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer, editor
- Ulla Procopéb. 1921FInot in their usual nameFinnish artist (1921–1968)
- Maria-Pia Liechtensteinb. 1960LInot in their usual nameAmbassador of Liechtenstein in Austria and the Czech Republic
- Ulrika Jonssonb. 1967SEBritish-Swedish television presenter, journalist
- Stina Nordenstamb. 1969SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
- Malin Persson Giolitob. 1969SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer and lawyer
- Jessica Meirb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican and Swedish astronaut (born 1977)
- Eva Wahlströmb. 1980FInot in their usual nameFinnish boxer
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 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41K | #97 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 19K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.5K | #396 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 226 | #4,386 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 111 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Ulrika a male or female name?
- Ulrika 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.
- How do you pronounce Ulrika?
- A machine transcription gives /u0lri:ka/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- What does the name Ulrika mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ulrika är en femininform till → Ulrik.
- What are other forms of the name Ulrika?
- In the etymology graph, Ulrike, Ulrica and Ulrikke are forms of the same name in other languages; Riikka and Riika are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Ulrika have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Ulrika, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulrika.
- Where is Ulrika most common?
- Ulrika is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 250 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ulrika?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 40,792 people named Ulrika, about 1 in 250 residents.
- How common is Ulrika compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ulrika is the 50th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ulrika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ulrikaThe 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, “Ulrika” — the 50th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.