Ulrike
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Ulrich, equivalent to English Ulrica
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʊlˈʁiːkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ulrike is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 584(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 917
- BEBelgium≈1 in 8.3K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 584 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Ulrich, equivalent to English Ulrica
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ulrike 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #121 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 584 | 1 | Ulrike | 239 |
| AT Austria | #146 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 917 | 1.2K | Ulrike | 127 |
| US United States | — | 1,453 | 1 in 229K | 1.4K | Ulrike | 224 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 9 | Ulrike | 50 |
| CH Switzerland | #675 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Ulrike | 56 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 308 | Ulrike | 18 |
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ulrike is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Scandinavian; feminine form of Ulrich
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In German, ) Ulrika; Ullrike; Ullrika: weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
German and Danish: feminine form of ULRICH . The name is now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world. Cognate: Czech: Old i ka .
as a word
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)
- Princess Ulrike Friederike Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kasselb. 1722DEGerman princess (1722-1787)
- Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussiab. 1767DEnot in their usual nameeldest child of Frederick William II of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Sophia of Prussiab. 1870DEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Greece (1870–1932)
- Ulrike Meinhofb. 1934DEGerman left-wing militant, journalist and author (1934–1976)
- Ulrike Meyfarthb. 1956DEGerman former high jumper
- Ulrike Lunacekb. 1957ATAustrian politician
- Ulrike Richterb. 1959DEEast German swimmer
- Ulrike Folkertsb. 1961DEGerman actress
- Ulrike Tillmannb. 1962DEmathematician
- Princess Alexandra of Hanoverb. 1999MCnot in their usual nameMonegasque figure skater and princess
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 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,526 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2020 | 1.2K | #1,837 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 308 | #3,479 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1985 | 180 | #66 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2009 | 9 | #965 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #9,526 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2020 | 1 | #3,633 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Ulrike mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Ulrich, equivalent to English Ulrica Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ulrike?
- In the etymology graph, Ulrika, Riikka and Ulrica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ulrike?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊlˈʁiːkə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Ulrike have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 thousand people named Ulrike in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ulrike.
- Is Ulrike a male or female name?
- Ulrike 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 common is the name Ulrike?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,453 people named Ulrike in 2020, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
- How common is Ulrike compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ulrike is the 121st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ulrike?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ulrikeThe 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, “Ulrike” — the 121st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.