Radtke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminuiertes patronymisches Suffix -ke(n); konkurrenziert mit slawischen Diminutivpatronymen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Radtke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- CACanada≈1 in 60K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminuiertes patronymisches Suffix -ke(n); konkurrenziert mit slawischen Diminutivpatronymen. 8945 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Radtke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Radtke | 4 |
| DE Germany | #520 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Radtke | 153 |
| US United States | — | 6,099 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Radtke | 298 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,009 | 1 in 19K | 1K | Radtke | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,892 | 1 in 112K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Radtke | 73 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Radtke | 2 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Radtke 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 German, Diminutiv/patronymische Bildung mit -ke; Varianten mit -en/-ens, -ck-, -ch-. 10 Types/8945 Tokens; Rad(t)ke 2336+5346, Rat(h)ke 301+855, Radcke 61, Rathcke 29, Rahtke(ns) 1+14, Raadtke 1, Rathkens 1.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Irena Radtkeb. 1923PLPolish archivist
- Horst Radtkeb. 1941DEGerman politician (1941-2017)
- Rosa von Praunheimb. 1942DEnot in their usual nameGerman film director (1942–2025)
- Peter Radtkeb. 1943DEGerman actor (1943–2020)
- Helga Radtkeb. 1962DEGerman long jumper
- Edward A. Radtkeb. 1962USAmerican film director
- Dan Radtkeb. 1963DEGerman bicycle racer
- Katarzyna Radtkeb. 1969PLathletics competitor
- Dennis Radtkeb. 1979DEGerman politician
- Kathleen Radtkeb. 1985DEassociation 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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.1K | #5,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.8K | #5,773 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,136 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1K | #2,962 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 971 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 971 | #3,124 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Radtke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminuiertes patronymisches Suffix -ke(n); konkurrenziert mit slawischen Diminutivpatronymen.
- In which country does Radtke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Radtke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled radtke.
- How common is the name Radtke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,099 people named Radtke in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Radtke compared with other names?
- In Germany, Radtke is the 520th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/radtkeThe 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, “Radtke” — the 520th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.