Raik (name)

Raik is a male given name , which also occurs as a family name .

variants

• Rayk
• Raiko

Origin and meaning

Raik is the Low German form of the Frisian name Rik or Rike, a short form of names with Rik such as Hend-rik, Frede-rik, Rik-kard or Rikkert.

Name bearer

First name

Raik

• Raik Dalgas (* 1976), German artist and aphorist
• Raik Dittrich (* 1968), German biathlete
• Raik Nowka (* 1975), German politician
• Raik Singer (* 1963), German actor
• Raik Thorstad (* 1980), German author

Rayk

• Rayk Anders (* 1987), German journalist
• Rayk Gaida (* 1964), German actor
• Rayk Schröder (* 1974), German soccer player
• Rayk Wieland (* 1965), German satirist and author

family name

• Katri Raik (* 1967), Estonian historian
• Kristi Raik (* 1975), Finnish social scientist
• Priit Raik (1948–2008), Estonian composer and conductor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of over 8,000 first names. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-91179-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
2. ↑ Cornelia Nitsch: First names: from popular to unusual. Gräfe Und Unzer, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8338-5171-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).
3. ↑ Raik on Popular-vornamen.de
4. ↑ Rik on meertens.knaw.nl