Rickenbacker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: An electric guitar (of the Rickenbacker brand)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɹɪkənbakə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rickenbacker is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- JMJamaica
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An electric guitar (of the Rickenbacker brand).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Adolph Rickenbackerb. 1887CHAmerican luthier (1887-1976)
- Eddie Rickenbackerb. 1890USUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1890–1973)
- Davie Rickenbackerb. 1987USAmerican reality television participant
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 454 | #46,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 434 | #51,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 420 | #47,485 |
| 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)
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rickenbacker mean, and where does it come from?
- An electric guitar (of the Rickenbacker brand). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Rickenbacker?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪkənbakə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rickenbacker have the most bearers?
- Rickenbacker is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rickenbacker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.