Réka

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Réka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 295(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 680K
  • RORomania≈1 in 47K

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.

Hungary (measured from records)

33,096 people, 2025

Sources
136 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 295 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

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 Reka in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Réka 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 Réka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#16033,0961 in 29533KRéka86
US United States—4891 in 680K486Reka136
RO Romania—≈460 est.≈1 in 47K—Réka17
DE Germany—≈120 est.≈1 in 647K1Reka74
AT Austria—≈110 est.≈1 in 82K51Reka27
DK Denmark—581 in 101K58—1
IS Iceland—41 in 88K4——

33,096 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Réka is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, India

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Reka

  • Croatian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Romania, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Rijeka, Reka, Река

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Reka, Ręka

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Reka

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19601970198019902000Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo, b. 1967Réka Szilvay, b. 1972Réka Pelsőczy, b. 1973Réka Divinyi, b. 1974Réka Mán-Várhegyi, b. 1979Réka Tenki, b. 1986Reka Rene, b. 1989Réka Luca Jani, b. 1991Réka Aschenbrenner, b. 1994Réka Pupp, b. 1996

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 22 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Réka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202533K#34
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202433K#36
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202333K#36
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201932K#39
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201831K#40
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201731K#40
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201630K#41
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201530K#43
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201328K#45
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201228K#45
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201127K#47
HU HungaryKSH — births by given name20051.1K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

In which country does Réka have the most bearers?
In Hungary, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Réka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled réka.
Where is Réka most common?
Réka is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 295 people carrying it.
Is Réka a male or female name?
Réka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
How common is the name Réka?
In Hungary, the national register counted 33,096 people named Réka in 2025, about 1 in 295 residents.
How common is Réka compared with other names?
In Hungary, Réka is the 160th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.

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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, “Réka” — the 160th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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