Rikka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a piece of litter, mote, speck (small particle of waste or unwanted material)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rikka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 216K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- ISIceland1 in 70K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a piece of litter, mote, speck (small particle of waste or unwanted material)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rikka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Rikka | 50 |
| PH Philippines | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Rikka | 39 |
| JP Japan | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 674K | — | Rikka | 16 |
| US United States | 156 | 1 in 2.1M | 155 | Rikka | 109 |
| AU Australia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Rikka | 25 |
| SG Singapore | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 364K | — | Rikka | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | Rikka | 11 |
| IS Iceland | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Rikka 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 izh, litter, rubbish
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)
- Rikka Deinbollb. 1897NONorwegian translator (1897–1973)
- Rikka Iharab. 1999JPJapanese dancer, actress, singer (1999-)
- Rikka Onob. 2002JPJapanese AV idol
- Rikka KitamiJPJapanese seiyū
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 155 | #44,359 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #44,359 |
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 Rikka mean, and where does it come from?
- a piece of litter, mote, speck (small particle of waste or unwanted material) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Rikka a male or female name?
- Rikka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Rikka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rikka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Rikka in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rikka.
- Where is Rikka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rikka is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 70 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rikka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 156 people named Rikka in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Rikka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rikkaThe 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, “Rikka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.