Entry № 8717 · Hebrew origin

Riikka Riikka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REEK-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Rebecca"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Finnish)

A name that means "rebecca".

Riikka is from the Finnish Riikka — Finnish rendition of Rebecca — from the Hebrew Rivqāh (to bind, captivate). Riikka is one of the Finnish feminine names — central to traditional Finnish Lutheran heritage.

Rebecca — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Riikka
Transliteration
Riikka
Pronunciation
/ ˈriːk.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Riikka stands.

Riikka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Riikkas before her.

Real people
Riikka Pulkkinen
Finnish novelist + Totta 2010 (17 languages).
born 1980
In fiction
Riikka
Finnish Rebecca.

Names connected to Riikka.

The number behind Riikka.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Riikka reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.