Rekha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: fine
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Rekha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 490(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.8K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 12Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rekha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #494 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 493 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Reka in HU Hungary, RO Romania.
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)fine
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rekha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #34 | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 493 | 611 | Rekha | 231 |
| BD Bangladesh | #293 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | listed | Rekha | 33 |
| HU Hungary | #303 | 33,096as Réka | 1 in 295 | 33K | Reka | 140 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Rekha | 69 |
| PL Poland | — | 21,602as Lech | 1 in 1.8K | 22K | Rekha | 4 |
| US United States | — | 3,689 | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Rekha | 266 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Reka | 40 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)- Rekha Bhardwajb. 1964INIndian singer
- Rekha Guptab. 1974IN9th Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi (born 1974)
- Rekha Sharmab. 1981CACanadian actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rekha mean, and where does it come from?
- fine Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- Is Rekha a male or female name?
- Rekha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Rekha?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Rekha in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rekha. After it come Bangladesh, Hungary, Indonesia and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Rekha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,689 people named Rekha in 2020, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Rekha compared with other names?
- In India, Rekha is the 34th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rekhaThe 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, “Rekha” — the 34th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.