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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Rikke m for the male version.
Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Short form of names containing the name element RIK [1] [2] [3] [4]
Related Names
See also Rekke, Rika
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Rikke
|
Genitive: |
Rikkes
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Rikke
|
Genitive: |
Rikkes
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Rikke
|
Genitive: |
Rikkes
|
Name Day
Norway
|
24 March
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[6] |
|
20926 |
n.a. |
20926 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[7] |
|
36 |
517 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[8] |
|
126 |
136 |
126 |
136 |
0 |
0 |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
26 |
n.a. |
15 |
n.a. |
11 |
Iceland[10] |
|
2 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[11] |
|
2894 |
n.a. |
2894 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[8][6][11][9]:
Sources: [8] [6] [11] [9]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[11]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no