Alke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Alk
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Alke is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 66K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 83Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Alk
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alke 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 83K | listed | Alke | 59 |
| NL Netherlands | 260 | 1 in 66K | 238 | Alke | 17 |
| IN India | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | 22 | Alke | 5 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Alke | 68 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 423K | — | Alke | 7 |
| BE Belgium | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 1 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Alke | 5 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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)Alke is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) TAlka: weibl. Vom., niederdeut sche Koseform von Namen, die mit »A(de)l-« gebildet sind, besonders von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, Prussian name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
North German form of aDELHEID.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Low German: popular pet form used as a given name in its own right, derived from a dramatically shortened version of ADELHEID (cf. AALTJE ).
as a word
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a razorbill, Alca torda
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)- Alke Goulimeb. 1926GRGreek writer
- Alke Brinkmannb. 1967DEGerman painter
- Alke Martensb. 1970DEGerman university professor and computer scientist
- Alke Dietelb. 1975DEGerman basketball player (born 1975)
- Alke Overbeckb. 1988DEGerman canoeist
- Alke Petri-Finkb. 2000CHscientist working on bionanomaterials
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #74,089 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #174,634 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Alke mean, and where does it come from?
- nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Alk Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Alke?
- In the etymology graph, Adolfo, Adi and Ade are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Alke a male or female name?
- Alke is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Alke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Alke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alke.
- Where is Alke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alke is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 260 people named Alke, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alkeThe 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, “Alke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.