Rikke
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rikke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Short form of Frederikke, Ulrikke and Henrikke.
- DKDenmark1 in 283(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 1.8K
- GLGreenland≈1 in 5K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 283 (inferred from the name graph)
20,774 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Frederikke, Ulrikke and Henrikke.
Sources 2
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rikke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #52 | 20,774 | 1 in 283 | 21K | Rikke | 165 |
| NO Norway | #450 | 3,050 | 1 in 1.8K | 11K | Rikke | 61 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Rikke | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Rikke | 32 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Rikke | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 149 | 1 in 68K | 149 | Rikke | 25 |
| GL Greenland | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 41 | — | 8 |
20,774 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Greenland — First names (NAXT5). 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)
- Rikke Louise Anderssonb. 1972DKDanish actress
- Rikke Olsenb. 1975DKbadminton player
- Rikke Schmidtb. 1975DKDanish handball player
- Rikke Hørlykkeb. 1976DKDanish handball player
- Rikke Skovb. 1980DKDanish handball player
- Rikke Møller Pedersenb. 1989DKDanish swimmer
- Rikke Iversenb. 1993DKDanish handball player
- Rikke S. Hansenb. 1995DKbadminton player
- Rikke Læntver Seveckeb. 1996DKDanish association football player
- Rikke Madsenb. 1997DKDanish association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rikke mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Frederikke, Ulrikke and Henrikke. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Rikke a male or female name?
- Rikke 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.
- What are other forms of the name Rikke?
- In the etymology graph, Federica, Frieda and Rika are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Frederikke.
- In which country does Rikke have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Rikke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rikke.
- Where is Rikke most common?
- Rikke is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 283 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rikke?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 20,774 people named Rikke, about 1 in 283 residents.
- How common is Rikke compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Rikke is the 52nd most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rikke?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rikkeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rikke” — the 52nd most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.