Etelka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom. ungarischer Herkunft, nach dem Königsnamen Etele (
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛtɛlkɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Etelka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary1 in 671(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 23K
- SISlovenia1 in 64K
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 671 (inferred from the name graph)
14,569 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
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)
weibl. Vom. ungarischer Herkunft, nach dem Königsnamen Etele (
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Etelka 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.
14,569 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given 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)
- Etelka Szapáryb. 1798HUHungarian noblewoman (1798–1876)
- Etelka Gersterb. 1855SKHungarian soprano and voice teacher (1855–1920)
- Etelka Benkőb. 1872HUopera singer, actor (1872-1921)
- Etelka Freundb. 1879HUHungarian pianist (1879–1977)
- Ata Kandób. 1913HUnot in their usual nameDutch photographer (1913-2017)
- Etelka Keserűb. 1925HUHungarian politician (1925–2018)
- Etelka Kenéz Hekab. 1936HRHungarian writer, poet, singer
- Etelka Barsi-Patakyb. 1941HUHungarian politician, engineer (1941-2018)
- Etelka Görgeyb. 1974HUHungarian theologian
- Etelka DombiHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2011 | 25K | #56 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2012 | 24K | #58 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2013 | 24K | #58 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2015 | 22K | #61 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2016 | 21K | #62 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2017 | 21K | #64 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2018 | 20K | #68 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2019 | 19K | #72 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2023 | 16K | #81 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2024 | 15K | #83 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 15K | #85 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1950 | 980 | #22 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Etelka?
- In the etymology graph, Etel is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Etelka mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. ungarischer Herkunft, nach dem Königsnamen Etele (
- How do you pronounce Etelka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛtɛlkɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Etelka have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Etelka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Etelka most common?
- Etelka is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 671 people carrying it.
- Is Etelka a male or female name?
- Etelka 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.
- How common is the name Etelka?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 14,569 people named Etelka in 2025, about 1 in 671 residents.
- How common is Etelka compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Etelka is the 890th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Etelka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/etelkaThe 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, “Etelka” — the 890th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.