Ulrika
given name · Swedish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ulrika is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swedish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ulrika är en femininform till → Ulrik.
- SESweden1 in 250◐
- FIFinland1 in 2.4K
- DEGermany1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈44K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 122 ●
- 1 in 250 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
27K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
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●
Ulrika är en femininform till → Ulrik. Namnet kom in i Sverige efter Karl xi:s giftermål med Ulrika Eleonora av Danmark (1656–93). Deras dotter hette också Ulrika Eleonora (1688–1741) och var Sveriges regent 1719–20. Bägge dessa drottningar bidrog till namnets spridning under 1700-talet. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska alma nackan 4 juli.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 15 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #43 | 40,792 | 21K rec. | 1 in 250 | 41K | Ulrika | 122 |
| FI Finland | #768 | 2,348△ | 181 rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 3.5K | Ulrika | 22 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,011 | 927 rec. | — | 1 | Ulrika | 61 |
| ES Spain | — | 695 | 673 rec. | — | — | Ulrika | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 501 | 238 rec. | — | 226 | Ulrika | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 399 | 329 rec. | — | listed | Ulrika | 32 |
| FR France | — | 399 | 277 rec. | — | listed | Ulrika | 85 |
| AU Australia | — | 301 | 258 rec. | — | 1 | Ulrika | 37 |
| US United States | — | 200 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 200 | Ulrika | 109 |
| BJ Benin | #48 | 196 | 186 rec. | — | — | Ulrika | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | 111△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 17K | 111 | Ulrika | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 85 | 91 rec. | — | — | Ulrika | 16 |
Roughly 41K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 250). 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●
- Swedish26K48%
- Finnish14K26%
- English3.7K7%
- German2.1K4%
- Spanish9462%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish | 25,778 | 48% |
| Finnish | 14,095 | 26% |
| English | 3,662 | 7% |
| German | 2,056 | 4% |
| Spanish | 946 | 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●
Ulrika is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Scandinavian form and German variant of ULRIKE . Pet form: Scandinavian: Ulla .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 18,876 |
| 2000 | 19,058 |
| 2001 | 19,207 |
| 2002 | 19,313 |
| 2003 | 19,508 |
| 2004 | 19,563 |
| 2005 | 19,522 |
| 2006 | 19,536 |
| 2007 | 19,511 |
| 2008 | 19,555 |
| 2009 | 19,530 |
| 2010 | 19,491 |
| 2011 | 19,438 |
| 2012 | 19,411 |
| 2013 | 19,361 |
| 2014 | 19,311 |
| 2015 | 19,286 |
| 2016 | 19,249 |
| 2017 | 19,218 |
| 2018 | 19,193 |
| 2019 | 19,159 |
| 2020 | 19,135 |
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●
- Ulrika Eleonora of Denmarkb. 1656DKqueen consort of Sweden (1656–1693)
- Ulrika Eleonorab. 1688SEqueen regnant of Sweden from 1718 to 1720 (1688–1741)
- Minna Canthb. 1844FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer, editor
- Ulla Procopéb. 1921FInot in their usual nameFinnish artist (1921–1968)
- Maria-Pia Liechtensteinb. 1960LInot in their usual nameAmbassador of Liechtenstein in Austria and the Czech Republic
- Ulrika Jonssonb. 1967SEBritish-Swedish television presenter, journalist
- Stina Nordenstamb. 1969SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
- Malin Persson Giolitob. 1969SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer and lawyer
- Jessica Meirb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican and Swedish astronaut (born 1977)
- Eva Wahlströmb. 1980FInot in their usual nameFinnish boxer
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 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 41K | #97 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 19K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.5K | #791 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 226 | #4,386 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 200 | #38,422 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ulrika?
- We estimate roughly 44 thousand people bear Ulrika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ulrika have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 41 thousand people bear Ulrika in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ulrika.
- Where is Ulrika most common?
- Ulrika is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 250 people carrying it.
- How common is Ulrika compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ulrika is the 43rd most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
- Is Ulrika a male or female name?
- Ulrika 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 Ulrika mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ulrika är en femininform till → Ulrik.
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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, “Ulrika” — the 43rd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.