Riikka
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈriːkːɑ/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Riikka is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short for Henriikka and for the Swedish pronunciations of Fredrika and Ulrika.
- FIFinland1 in 415(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 68K
- DKDenmark1 in 419K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 415 (inferred from the name graph)
13,431 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Short for Henriikka and for the Swedish pronunciations of Fredrika and Ulrika.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Riikka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 13,431 | 1 in 415 | 14K | Riikka | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 151 | 1 in 68K | 151 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
13,431 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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 — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Riikka Pelob. 1972FIFinnish writer
- Riikka Sallinenb. 1973FIFinnish ice hockey player (born 1973)
- Riikka Sirviöb. 1974FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Riikka Purrab. 1977FIFinnish politician
- Riikka Lehtonenb. 1979FIFinnish (beach) volleyball player
- Riikka Pulkkinenb. 1980FIFinnish writer
- Riikka Sarasoja-Liljab. 1982FIFinnish cross-country skier
- Riikka Karppinenb. 1991FIFinnish pesäpallo player
- Riikka Karppinenb. 1994FIFinnish politician
- Riikka Honkanenb. 1998FIFinnish alpine skier
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)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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 14K | #158 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 151 | #6,441 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 90 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 90 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 88 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 87 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 82 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 82 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 82 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 82 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Riikka mean, and where does it come from?
- Short for Henriikka and for the Swedish pronunciations of Fredrika and Ulrika. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Riikka?
- In the etymology graph, Harriet, Ina and Heike are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Fredrika and Henriikka.
- How do you pronounce Riikka?
- In Finnish /ˈriːkːɑ/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Riikka a male or female name?
- Riikka is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Riikka have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Riikka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riikka.
- Where is Riikka most common?
- Riikka is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 415 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Riikka?
- In Finland, the national register counted 13,431 people named Riikka, about 1 in 415 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/riikkaThe 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, “Riikka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.