Téka
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Téka is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »bilježnica, Schreibheft, pisanka«.
- GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- USUnited States1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)
318 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Teka in BR Brazil, 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)»bilježnica, Schreibheft, pisanka«
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Téka 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 | 318 | 1 in 1M | 325 | Teka | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 45 | Teka | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 15 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
318 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Téka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, »bilježnica, Schreibheft, pisanka«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In men, v., to burn. nye a déka
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Téka mean, and where does it come from?
- »bilježnica, Schreibheft, pisanka« Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Is Téka a male or female name?
- Téka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Téka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 318 people named Téka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled teka.
- Where is Téka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Téka is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Téka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 318 people named Téka in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%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, “Téka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.