Bélka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bélka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Polish Belka, a nickname for a tall, upright man, from belka (“beam, timber”). * Borrowed from Czech Bělka, from a pet form of the female given name Běla.
- PLPoland1 in 19K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 113K
- USUnited States1 in 609K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
2,050 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Belka in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- PolishBelka(measured from records)
- Polish rootbelka“beam“beam, timber”(measured from records)
- CzechBělka(measured from records)
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Polish Belka, a nickname for a tall, upright man, from belka (“beam, timber”). * Borrowed from Czech Bělka, from a pet form of the female given name Běla.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bélka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
2,050 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bélka mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Polish Belka, a nickname for a tall, upright man, from belka (“beam, timber”). * Borrowed from Czech Bělka, from a pet form of the female given name Běla. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Bélka a male or female name?
- Bélka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Bélka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Bélka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bélka most common?
- Bélka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bélka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,050 people named Bélka in 2026, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bélka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A9lkaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bélka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.