Alka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: girl between eight and eighteen years old, girl with long
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈæɫkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 194K
- HRCroatia1 in 49K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
girl between eight and eighteen years old, girl with long
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Alka | 56 |
| US United States | — | 1,712 | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Alka | 238 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Alka | 80 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Alka | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Alka | 58 |
| HR Croatia | — | 86 | 1 in 49K | 86 | Alka | 19 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Alka | 20 |
| IN India | #668 | — | — | 17 | Alka | 202 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Alka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Galbūt tarminė lytis iš *Eika, plg. liet. pvd. Eikys, Ėikis (žr.). Tačiau nėra neįmanomas ryšys ir su Haika (žr.).
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Belleza
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Polish, auk, razorbill (any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of alke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, auk; bird in the family Alcidae
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alka Nupurb. 1957INIndian actress
- Alka Joshib. 1958USIndian novelist
- Alka Balbirb. 1985FRFrench actress
- Alka Sadatb. 1988AFAfghan filmmaker
- Alka KhaitanUSprofessor of clinical pediatrics
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Alka mean, and where does it come from?
- girl between eight and eighteen years old, girl with long Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- How do you pronounce Alka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæɫkə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Alka a male or female name?
- Alka 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 Alka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Alka in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alka.
- Where is Alka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,712 people named Alka in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
- How common is Alka compared with other names?
- In India, Alka is the 668th 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/alkaThe 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, “Alka” — the 668th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.