Rihu
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ɹɪhu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rihu is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland. Recorded meaning: Possibly from briha.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 3 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
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
(measured from records)Possibly from briha.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rihu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #3,182 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #64,597 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rihu mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly from briha. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Rihu?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪhu/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Rihu a male or female name?
- Rihu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Rihu have the most bearers?
- Rihu is most frequently recorded in Finland.
What do you want to know about Rihu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rihuThe 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, “Rihu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.