Reka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reka 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 295(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 17K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 11Kas Rekha
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 Reka 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 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
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.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reka 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 | 33,096 | 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)
Reka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of reke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to drive (forward or away)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of reke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, to compile, arrange
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, to drive, to drift
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, create, invent
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)
- Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabob. 1967RORomanian fencer
- Réka Szilvayb. 1972FIHungarian-Finnish musician
- Réka Pelsőczyb. 1973HUHungarian actress
- Réka Divinyib. 1974HUHungarian screenwriter and dramaturge
- Réka Mán-Várhegyib. 1979RORomanian-born Hungarian writer
- Réka Tenkib. 1986HUHungarian actress
- Reka Reneb. 1989HUHungarian actress and writer
- Réka Luca Janib. 1991HUHungarian female tennis player
- Réka Aschenbrennerb. 1994HUHungarian female association football player (1994-)
- Réka Puppb. 1996HUHungarian judoka
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 50 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 733 | #5,098 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 131 | #23,749 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 62 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #43,347 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 59 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 59 | #44,413 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Reka a male or female name?
- Reka 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 Reka have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Reka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reka.
- Where is Reka most common?
- Reka is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 295 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Reka?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 33,096 people named Reka in 2025, about 1 in 295 residents.
- How common is Reka compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Reka is the 303rd most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rekaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Reka” — the 303rd most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.