Reik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zu Rufname mit Stammvokal ei; ggf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1M
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
275 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Zu Rufname mit Stammvokal ei; ggf. Kurzform auf *rik-/*rih-; 127 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reik 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.
275 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Reik 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.
In got, romanization of 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, parting of the hair
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)
- Johann Friedrich Reikb. 1836DEGerman painter
- Otto Reikb. 1874ATHolocaust victim (born 1874)
- Theodor Reikb. 1888ATAustrian-American psychoanalyst (1888-1969)
- Haviva Reikb. 1914SKJewish Slovakian resistance fighter (1914–1944)
- Herta Reikb. 1916ATAustrian-born psychoanalyst
- Wolf Reikb. 1957DEEnglish scientist
- Martin Reikb. 1970DEGerman actor
- Maya Reikb. 1998ILIsareli fashion designer
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 293 | #71,696 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 279 | #66,274 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 275 | #71,042 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 69 | #83,359 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #196,198 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Reik mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zu Rufname mit Stammvokal ei; ggf.
- In which country does Reik have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 275 people named Reik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reik.
- Where is Reik most common?
- Reik is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Reik in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million 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/reikThe 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, “Reik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.