Ulrik
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ulrik is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from German, equivalent to English Ulrich or Ulric.
- NONorway1 in 1.3K◐
- DKDenmark1 in 1.4K
- LVLatvia1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 149 ●
- 1 in 1.3K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
8.0K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ul'Rik in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name from German, equivalent to English Ulrich or Ulric
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #285 | 4,223△ | 693 rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 16K | Ulrik | 49 |
| DK Denmark | #209 | 4,118 | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 4.1K | Ulrik | 149 |
| SE Sweden | #769 | 2,605△ | 580 rec. | 1 in 3.9K | 2.6K | Ulrik | 63 |
| US United States | — | 1,215 | 1.1K rec. | — | 5 | Ulrik | 100 |
| LV Latvia | #499 | 1,122 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Ul'Rik | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,020 | 831 rec. | — | 1 | Ulrik | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 220 | 153 rec. | — | listed | Ulrik | 35 |
| TN Tunisia | — | 145 | 160 rec. | — | — | Ulrik | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 115 | 128 rec. | — | 1 | Ulrik | 23 |
| GL Greenland | #116 | 95 | 3 rec. | — | 73 | Ulrik | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 80△ | 14 rec. | 1 in 70K | 240 | Ulrik | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 63 | 57 rec. | — | — | Ulrik | 15 |
Roughly 4.2K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 1.3K). 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●
- Danish27K54%
- Norwegian Bokmål16K32%
- English1.3K3%
- German1.2K2%
- Finnish8772%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 27,352 | 54% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 15,930 | 32% |
| English | 1,276 | 3% |
| German | 1,184 | 2% |
| Finnish | 877 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ulrik is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, a male given name from German Ulrich, equivalent to English Ulric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Ulrik är ett tyskt namn, sammansatt av fornhögtyskt uodal ’arvegods’ och → -rik. Ulrik var namnet på ett tyskt helgon (890–973). Namnet kom in i Sverige redan under medeltiden men blev vanligt efter att det givits till en av Karl xi:s och Ulrika Eleonoras söner. I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 augusti och i den finlandssvenska 4 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsche Neben form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Swedish, a male given name, equivalent to English Ulrich or Ulric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 22 |
| 1989 | 28 |
| 1990 | 22 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 34 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 38 |
| 1995 | 32 |
| 1996 | 42 |
| 1997 | 61 |
| 1998 | 58 |
| 1999 | 54 |
| 2000 | 66 |
| 2001 | 65 |
| 2002 | 69 |
| 2003 | 62 |
| 2004 | 74 |
| 2005 | 79 |
| 2006 | 71 |
| 2007 | 89 |
| 2008 | 85 |
| 2009 | 89 |
| 2010 | 117 |
| 2011 | 131 |
| 2012 | 131 |
| 2013 | 131 |
| 2014 | 144 |
| 2015 | 142 |
| 2016 | 174 |
| 2017 | 176 |
| 2018 | 191 |
| 2019 | 189 |
| 2020 | 164 |
| 2021 | 197 |
| 2022 | 230 |
| 2023 | 227 |
| 2024 | 250 |
| 2025 | 259 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 56 years between 1946–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ulrik of Denmarkb. 1578DEDanish prince-bishop
- Ulrik of Denmarkb. 1611DKPrince-bishop of Schwerin
- Ulrik Christian Gyldenløveb. 1630DKcommander-in-chief of the Danish army during the Dano-Swedish War
- Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløveb. 1638DEDanish noble and general (1638-1704)
- Adolf Ulrik Wertmüllerb. 1751SESwedish painter (1751-1811)
- Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Langb. 1896DKDanish biochemist
- Lars Ulrik Mortensenb. 1955DKDanish harpsichordist and conductor
- Ulrik Janssonb. 1968SESwedish footballer
- Ulrik Muntherb. 1994SESwedish singer, songwriter, musician
- Ulrik Yttergård Jenssenb. 1996NONorwegian 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 37 sources across 24 countries.
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 · 259 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ulrik?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Ulrik (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ulrik have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.2 thousand people bear Ulrik in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ulrik.
- How common is Ulrik compared with other names?
- In Norway, Ulrik is the 285th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Ulrik a male or female name?
- Ulrik is a male 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 Ulrik mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name from German, equivalent to English Ulrich or Ulric
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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.
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, “Ulrik” — the 285th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.