Recka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɛkkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Recka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 110K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 147K
- PLPoland1 in 213K
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
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
180 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rečka in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)
Plg. liet. Rėckas, Rėckus (žr.), lenk. Reck, „Recko (SSNO IV 454).
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 180 | 1 in 213K | 180 | Recka | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 97 | 1 in 110K | 97 | Rečka | 11 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Recka | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Rečka | 9 |
180 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Recka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, Plg. liet. Rėckas, Rėckus (žr.), lenk. Reck, „Recko (SSNO IV 454).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 180 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 180 | #18,141 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Recka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɛkkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Recka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 180 people named Recka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled recka.
- Where is Recka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Recka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 110 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Recka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 180 people named Recka in 2026, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Recka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reckaThe 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, “Recka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.