Rathke
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹæθkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rathke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 276K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.3Mas Raethke
- NONorway1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rathke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
1,206 people, 2010
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:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rathke 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 | 1,206 | 1 in 276K | 1.2K | Rathke | 102 |
| BR Brazil | 433 | 1 in 489K | 433 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Rathke | 98 |
| NO Norway | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | Rathke | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 33 | 1 in 178K | 33 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | Rathke | 6 |
1,206 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jens Rathkeb. 1769NONorwegian zoologist (1769-1855)
- Martin Heinrich Rathkeb. 1793PLGerman biologist (1793–1860)
- Bernhard Rathkeb. 1840DEGerman chemist (1840–1923)
- Otto Rathkeb. 1881DEGerman cabaret artist and conductor (1881-1936)
- Hans-Joachim Rathkeb. 1907DEGerman civil servant
- Helmut Rathkeb. 1910PLGerman navy officer and WWII submarine commander (1910-2001)
- August Rathkeb. 1925NONorwegian lawyer, politician, resistance fighter
- Heinrich Rathkeb. 1928DEGerman lutheran bishop (* 1928)
- Andre Rathkeb. 1950DEGerman rower
- Jonathan Rathkeb. 1993DEGerman badminton 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,727 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 433 | #19,371 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 62 | #22,502 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 33 | #15,123 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Rathke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹæθkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rathke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Rathke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rathke.
- Where is Rathke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rathke is densest in Norway — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rathke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,206 people named Rathke in 2010, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rathke?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rathkeThe 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, “Rathke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.