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Rikke

Girls' name

Short form of Frederikke

Rikke has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Rikke, 1966

1 in 316,000

Rikke over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rikke: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Frederikke

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rikke means

Rikke is a short form of Frederikke.

Origin, language, and formation

Rikke is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Frederikke and Frederik.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Rikke between 1965 and 1966. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1966; its best national rank was #4,151 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rikke?

Rikke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1966, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1966
1 in 316,000
11 of 3,475,564 births
Among girls only
1 in 154,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1966
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
219,008 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rikke sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1966 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 219,008 children born in 1966 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rikke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rikkes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rikke was born before 1966 — so the typical Rikke is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Rikke rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1966 (11)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,151
1966

Spellings of Rikke

Rikke is not the most common spelling — Nikki is, with 45.8% against Rikke's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Rikke around the world

Where Rikke ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #171
    in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Rikke by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,151
1966
Peak year
1966
11 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
1966
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rikke

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rikke

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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