Léka
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Léka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pod (of a vegetable).
- 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)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
463 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Léka 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 463 | 1 in 718K | 558 | Leka | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 313 | 1 in 27K | 313 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 77 | 1 in 133K | 77 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 67 | 1 in 571K | 50 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 55 | 1 in 101K | 55 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 42 | 1 in 101K | 42 | — | — |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Géza Lékab. 1928HUHungarian actor (1928–2003)
- Géza Lékab. 1957Hungarian poet (1957–)
- Zoltán LékaHUPh.D. University of Szeged 2009
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Léka 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 Léka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 463 people named Léka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leka.
- Where is Léka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Léka 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 Léka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 463 people named Léka in 2010, about 1 in 718 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A9kaThe 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, “Léka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.