Lèka

surname · Latin script

Lèka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pod (of a vegetable).

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 101K
  • FIFinland1 in 101K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

463 people, 2010

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Leka 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)

pod (of a vegetable)

Sources 4

  • Wiktionary
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
  • Nordic Names
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lèka 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.

Where Lèka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4631 in 718K558Leka11
CH Switzerland3131 in 27K313——
SE Sweden771 in 133K77——
PL Poland671 in 571K50——
FI Finland551 in 101K55——
NO Norway441 in 124K44——
HR Croatia421 in 101K42——

463 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lèka under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lèka mean, and where does it come from?
pod (of a vegetable) Recorded by Wiktionary and Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names and 2 other sources.
In which country does Lèka have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 463 people named Lèka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leka.
Where is Lèka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lèka is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lèka?
In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Lèka in 2010, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.

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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, “Lèka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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