Jelka

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jelka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., kroatische und slowenische.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 875
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 12K

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 Jelka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

3,624 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 875 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JelkaLatin(measured from records)
ЈелкаCyrillic(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., kroatische und slowenische

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jelka 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.

Where Jelka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#2053,6241 in 1.2K3.6KJelka27
SI Slovenia#2012,4021 in 8752.4KJelka26
RS Serbia#599≈570 est.≈1 in 12K—Jelka19
DE Germany—≈300 est.≈1 in 270K—Jelka66
NL Netherlands—1841 in 94K184Jelka21
MK North Macedonia—90as Јелка1 in 24K90—1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈89 est.≈1 in 43K—Jelka5

3,624 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); State Statistical Office — living population 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jelka is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Argentina, Chile, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jélka

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jelka Rosen, b. 1868Jelka Cvetežar, b. 1931Jelka Žmuc-Kušar, b. 1936Jelka Reichman, b. 1939Jelka Koselj, b. 1941Jelka Pirkovič, b. 1948Jelka Gazvoda, b. 1951Jelka Godec Schmidt, b. 1958Jelka van Houten, b. 1978Jelka Ciglenečki, b. 1980

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.

Reference works 3

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 Jelka mean, and where does it come from?
weibl. Vom., kroatische und slowenische Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
Is Jelka a male or female name?
Jelka 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.
What are other forms of the name Jelka?
In the etymology graph, Elena, Helen and Elaine are forms of the same name in other languages; Jelica is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Jelena.
In which country does Jelka have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Jelka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jelka.
Where is Jelka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jelka is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 875 people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jelka?
In Croatia, the national register counted 3,624 people named Jelka in 2021, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Jelka compared with other names?
In Croatia, Jelka is the 205th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jelka” — the 205th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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