Ricke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: female roe deer (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈrɪkə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Ricke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zambia than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 83K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 261K
- NLNetherlands1 in 421K
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.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ricke
- German:/ˈrɪkə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/rice/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)female roe deer
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Ricke is found
(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 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Ricke | 1 |
| US United States | 1,273 | 1 in 261K | 1.4K | Ricke | 227 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 83K | listed | — | — |
| LR Liberia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Ricke | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 687K | — | Ricke | 27 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Ricke | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Ricke | 1 |
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; 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)
- Axel Rickeb. 1976DEGerman film producer
- Henning Rickeb. 1980DEGerman film director
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
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).
- How do you pronounce Ricke?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈrɪkə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /rice/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ricke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Ricke in Zambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricke. After it come United States, Germany, Liberia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Ricke?
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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 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, “Ricke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.