Tékla

given name · Latin script

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

Tékla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía).

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 9.7K
  • FIFinland1 in 22K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

1,050 people

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

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 Tekla 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)

From Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía).

Sources 3

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tékla 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 Tékla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden1,0501 in 9.7K1.1K——
PL Poland5811 in 66K581——
US United States4161 in 800K405Tekla5
LV Latvia2981 in 6.3K298—1
FI Finland2571 in 22K1.5K——
IS Iceland141 in 25K14——

1,050 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); 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)

Tékla is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, Poland

    Languages: Ukrainian, Georgian, Russian

    Also written Текля, Teklia, Tekla, Текла, თეკლა

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tékla 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 Tékla mean, and where does it come from?
From Ancient Greek Θεοκλεία (Theokleía). Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
Is Tékla a male or female name?
Tékla 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.
In which country does Tékla have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Tékla, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tékla most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tékla is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tékla?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,050 people named Tékla, about 1 in 9.7 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, “Tékla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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