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Lykke

Germanic languages roots

Language contexts for this entry: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian

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Swedish

Origin: Germanic languages
3 language contexts: Danish Finnish Norwegian
Follow the evidence: 5 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Lykke

Lykke is a feminine given name documented in Danish, Finnish and Norwegian. English Wiktionary traces it to Germanic via Middle Low German.

Germanic languages origin

Source-reported

From medieval Danish Lydik, Lydike, from Middle Low German Ludeke, diminutive of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Liut' ("folk"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“folk, people”). By folk etymology associated with Danish lykke (“happiness”).

Sources for this account (3)

Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Lykke is used

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Across borders

countries in our sources

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4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

Germany

Published statistics

Berlin, 2023: 2 girls (rank 937).

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4 of 5 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Lykke

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 67; births; Rank #91
Peak year: 2013; 104 births

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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Lykke in Norway, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	5	555	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	4	615	observed
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	4	577	observed
2001	7	431	observed
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	11	335	observed
2004	10	376	observed
2005	14	309	observed
2006	20	243	observed
2007	27	210	observed
2008	42	154	observed
2009	65	109	observed
2010	77	92	observed
2011	84	81	observed
2012	90	73	observed
2013	104	63	observed
2014	81	77	observed
2015	84	78	observed
2016	67	91	observed
2017	60	98	observed
2018	55	106	observed
2019	63	97	observed
2020	45	116	observed
2021	50	102	observed
2022	61	90	observed
2023	59	95	observed
2024	62	90	observed
2025	67	91	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Lykke” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Lykke Li
born 1986
Swedish singer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
May Andersen
born 1982
Danish model
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Lykke with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms4

Wikidata Q3841003CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Lykke.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Sweden — grouped top 100 newborn calling names, 1998–2022
Statistics Sweden (SCB) · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Opening name…

About Lykke

Lykke is a feminine given name documented in Danish, Finnish and Norwegian. English Wiktionary traces it to Germanic via Middle Low German.

Germanic languages origin

Source-reported

Sources for this account (3)

Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Lykke is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Lykke’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

Germany

Published statistics

Berlin, 2023: 2 girls (rank 937).

Explore Germany

4 of 5 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Lykke

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 2025: 67; births; Rank #91
Peak year: 2013; 104 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Lykke in Norway, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	no value	no value	not covered
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	no value	no value	not covered
1949	no value	no value	not covered
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	no value	no value	not covered
1952	no value	no value	not covered
1953	no value	no value	not covered
1954	no value	no value	not covered
1955	no value	no value	not covered
1956	no value	no value	not covered
1957	no value	no value	not covered
1958	no value	no value	not covered
1959	no value	no value	not covered
1960	no value	no value	not covered
1961	no value	no value	not covered
1962	no value	no value	not covered
1963	no value	no value	not covered
1964	no value	no value	not covered
1965	no value	no value	not covered
1966	no value	no value	not covered
1967	no value	no value	not covered
1968	no value	no value	not covered
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	no value	no value	not covered
1971	no value	no value	not covered
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	no value	no value	not covered
1975	no value	no value	not covered
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	5	555	observed
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	4	615	observed
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	4	577	observed
2001	7	431	observed
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	11	335	observed
2004	10	376	observed
2005	14	309	observed
2006	20	243	observed
2007	27	210	observed
2008	42	154	observed
2009	65	109	observed
2010	77	92	observed
2011	84	81	observed
2012	90	73	observed
2013	104	63	observed
2014	81	77	observed
2015	84	78	observed
2016	67	91	observed
2017	60	98	observed
2018	55	106	observed
2019	63	97	observed
2020	45	116	observed
2021	50	102	observed
2022	61	90	observed
2023	59	95	observed
2024	62	90	observed
2025	67	91	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Lykke Li
born 1986
Swedish singer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
May Andersen
born 1982
Danish model
Recorded as a middle or baptismal name
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms4

Wikidata Q3841003CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: LykkeCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Lykke.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Sweden — grouped top 100 newborn calling names, 1998–2022
Statistics Sweden (SCB) · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Lykke

Germanic languages origin

Where Lykke is used

Across borders

Germany

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Lykke Li

May Andersen

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Lykke

Germanic languages origin

Where Lykke is used

Across borders

Germany

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Lykke Li

May Andersen

Related names

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page