Rimkus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɪmkəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rimkus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Lithuanian Rimkus.
- NONorway1 in 29K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 111K
- DKDenmark1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
627 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Lithuanian Rimkus.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rimkus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 627 | 1 in 531K | 635 | Rimkus | 12 |
| NO Norway | 186 | 1 in 29K | 186 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 50 | 1 in 111K | 50 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | — |
627 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Günter Rimkusb. 1928DEGerman dramaturge (1928-2015)
- Vytenis Rimkusb. 1930LTLithuanian artist (1930-2020)
- Rimkusb. 1945DEGerman badminton player
- Ursula Rimkusb. 1949DEGerman badminton player
- Kęstutis Rimkusb. 1953LTLithuanian politician
- Juozas Rimkusb. 1960LTLithuanian agronomist and politician
- Andreas Rimkusb. 1962DEGerman politician
- Andreas Rimkusb. 1962DEGerman metal artist, sculptor and curator focusing on the work of Siegfried Prütz (born 1962)
- Lorenzo Rimkusb. 1984NLDutch association football player
- Sarah Rimkusb. 1990USAmerican composer
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 635 | #33,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 627 | #35,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 612 | #38,883 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 186 | #8,518 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #22,882 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 28 | #17,704 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #25,446 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Rimkus mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Lithuanian Rimkus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- How do you pronounce Rimkus?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɪmkəs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rimkus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 627 people named Rimkus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rimkus.
- Where is Rimkus most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rimkus is densest in Norway — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rimkus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 627 people named Rimkus in 2010, about 1 in 531 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rimkusThe 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, “Rimkus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.