Merike

given name · Estonian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Merike is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From meri (“sea”) + -ke (diminutive ending).

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 549◐
  • FIFinland1 in 29K
  • SESweden1 in 126K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈282 ●

across 4 countries

Sources
51 ●

1.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 29K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

From meri (“sea”) + -ke (diminutive ending).

Sources 2

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Merike is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#687,730794 rec.—3.1KMerike51
US United States—443399 rec.——Merike49
FI Finland—191△57 rec.1 in 29K515Merike8
SE Sweden—81△12 rec.1 in 126K81Merike9
AU Australia—7870 rec.——Merike17
DE Germany—6861 rec.——Merike25
GB United Kingdom—3731 rec.——Merike11
CA Canada—2727 rec.——Merike13
ZA South Africa—2322 rec.——Merike6
IN India—108 rec.——Merike1
NL Netherlands—75 rec.1 in 2.5M7Merike4
LV Latvia—30 rec.1 in 627K3—2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Estonian7.8K72%
  • Finnish1.8K17%
  • English5405%
  • German1051%
  • 491%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian7,75872%
Finnish1,83317%
English5405%
German1051%
491%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Merike is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name69 records spelled Merike2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Estonia

    Also written Meriké

  • Russian given name49 records spelled Merike6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Мерике, Меріке

  • Amharic given name32 records spelled Merike3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States

    Also written መርኬ, መርከ

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040602000200520102015202049 · 2018

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Merike in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199941
200041
200141
200241
200340
200441
200542
200645
200746
200844
200946
201046
201145
201246
201347
201446
201546
201645
201745
201849
201948
202048

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Merike Rõtova, b. 1936Merike Kokayev, b. 1956Merike Tatsi, b. 1957Merike Talve, b. 1957Merike Lang, b. 1958Merike Jürjo, b. 1959Merike Pitk, b. 1959Merike Sisask, b. 1968Merike Holzhäuser, b. 1973Merike Paberits, b. 1988

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●

Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Merike
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—3.1K#33
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—3.1K#27
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—515#2,129
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—191—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—81#9,812
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201849—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202048—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201948—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201347—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201546—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201446—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201246—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Merike?
We estimate roughly 282 people bear Merike (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Merike have the most bearers?
Merike is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled merike.
How common is Merike compared with other names?
In Estonia, Merike is the 68th most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Merike a male or female name?
Merike 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 does the name Merike mean?
Recorded meaning: From meri (“sea”) + -ke (diminutive ending).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Merike” — the 68th most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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