Lekha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A ledger
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lekha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. In India it is the 34th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 295as Réka(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 11Kas Rekha
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 17Kas Reka
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 Lekha 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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- #494 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- 1 in 295 (inferred from the name graph)
33,096 named Réka, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, as Réka
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rekha in IN India, PL Poland, BD Bangladesh and 3 more and Reka in HU Hungary.
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)
A ledger.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lekha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #303 | 33,096as Réka | 1 in 295 | 33K | Reka | 140 |
| PL Poland | — | 21,602as Lech | 1 in 1.8K | 22K | Rekha | 4 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3 | Rekha | 47 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Rekha | 69 |
| BD Bangladesh | #293 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Rekha | 33 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #674 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Rekha | 56 |
| IN India | #34 | — | — | 611 | Rekha | 231 |
33,096 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling réka. 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; 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); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lekha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
document. a deity; god.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
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)
- Lekha Shehanib. 1993LKSri Lankan badminton player
- Lekha Prajapatib. 1998INIndian 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)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 does the name Lekha mean, and where does it come from?
- A ledger. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lekha?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫkə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Lekha a male or female name?
- Lekha 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 Lekha have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Réka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lekha most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lekha itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 295 people named Réka.
- How common is the name Lekha?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 33,096 people named Réka in 2025, about 1 in 295 residents.
- How common is Lekha compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Lekha is the 303rd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lekha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lekhaThe 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, “Lekha” — the 303rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.