Ricke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ricke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: female roe deer.
- USUnited States1 in 261K(measured from records)
- ZMZambia≈1 in 5.7K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 33K
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.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
female roe deer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ricke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZM Zambia | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Ricke | 1 |
| US United States | 1,273 | 1 in 261K | 1.4K | Ricke | 227 |
| DE Germany | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 96K | listed | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Ricke | 3 |
| LR Liberia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Ricke | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Ricke | 1 |
| SE Sweden | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 257K | 12 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the dfa-band-6 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)
Ricke 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 hrx, back
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)
- Herbert Rickeb. 1901DEGerman archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian (1901–1976)
- Helmut Rickeb. 1936DEGerman business executive
- Helmut Rickeb. 1943DEGerman art historian and museum director
- Kai-Uwe Rickeb. 1961DEGerman Manager
- Axel Rickeb. 1976DEGerman film producer
- Axel Rickeb. 1976screenwriter
- Tim Rickeb. 1977DEGerman actor
- Henning Rickeb. 1980DEGerman film director
- Henning Rickeb. 1980DEscreenwriter
- Amy K. RickeUSadjunct clinical assistant professor of psychiatry
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,759 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #48,425 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Ricke mean, and where does it come from?
- female roe deer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ricke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Ricke in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricke.
- How common is the name Ricke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,273 people named Ricke in 2010, about 1 in 261 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/rickeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ricke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.