Rikke
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rikke is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Short form of Frederikke, Ulrikke and Henrikke.
- DKDenmark1 in 283◐
- NONorway1 in 1.8K
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 283 ◐
across 8 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
Short form of Frederikke, Ulrikke and Henrikke.
Sources 2
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #54 | 20,771△ | 7.4K rec. | 1 in 283 | 21K | Rikke | 159 |
| NO Norway | #358 | 3,050△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 11K | Rikke | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 451 | 369 rec. | — | — | Rikke | 38 |
| DE Germany | — | 309 | 274 rec. | — | — | Rikke | 43 |
| AU Australia | — | 307 | 290 rec. | — | — | Rikke | 34 |
| TN Tunisia | — | 171 | 178 rec. | — | — | Rikke | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 149 | 162 rec. | 1 in 68K | 149 | Rikke | 24 |
| US United States | — | 144 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 144 | Rikke | 83 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 123 | 19 rec. | — | — | Rikke | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 83 | 64 rec. | 1 in 208K | 83 | Rikke | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 64 | 50 rec. | — | — | Rikke | 15 |
| GL Greenland | #247 | 52 | 5 rec. | — | 41 | Rikke | 8 |
Roughly 21K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 283). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Danish97K85%
- Norwegian Bokmål11K9%
- English2.1K2%
- Norwegian1K1%
- German4171%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 96,548 | 85% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 10,564 | 9% |
| English | 2,115 | 2% |
| Norwegian | 1,010 | 1% |
| German | 417 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1958 | 11 |
| 1960 | 10 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 4 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 12 |
| 1967 | 8 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 15 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 34 |
| 1973 | 22 |
| 1974 | 34 |
| 1975 | 24 |
| 1976 | 28 |
| 1977 | 24 |
| 1978 | 23 |
| 1979 | 19 |
| 1980 | 21 |
| 1981 | 23 |
| 1982 | 30 |
| 1983 | 25 |
| 1984 | 25 |
| 1985 | 42 |
| 1986 | 35 |
| 1987 | 51 |
| 1988 | 64 |
| 1989 | 69 |
| 1990 | 73 |
| 1991 | 79 |
| 1992 | 78 |
| 1993 | 80 |
| 1994 | 100 |
| 1995 | 114 |
| 1996 | 125 |
| 1997 | 119 |
| 1998 | 126 |
| 1999 | 120 |
| 2000 | 92 |
| 2001 | 95 |
| 2002 | 82 |
| 2003 | 87 |
| 2004 | 82 |
| 2005 | 54 |
| 2006 | 72 |
| 2007 | 48 |
| 2008 | 49 |
| 2009 | 49 |
| 2010 | 68 |
| 2011 | 52 |
| 2012 | 47 |
| 2013 | 43 |
| 2014 | 44 |
| 2015 | 35 |
| 2016 | 34 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 32 |
| 2020 | 40 |
| 2021 | 32 |
| 2022 | 29 |
| 2023 | 53 |
| 2024 | 32 |
| 2025 | 28 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 69 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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●
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 2026-09-12 data build · 236 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rikke?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Rikke (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rikke have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Rikke in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Rikke compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Rikke is the 54th most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Rikke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Short form of Frederikke, Ulrikke and Henrikke.
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rikke” — the 54th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.