Etelka
Etelka or Etelke is a Hungarian given name. It is the female equivalent of Etele, a variant of Attila. It may have originated as the name of the title character in the 1788 novel Etelka by Dugonics András.
- Hungarian
Meaning & Origin of Etelka
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Etelka or Etelke is a Hungarian given name. It is the female equivalent of Etele, a variant of Attila. It may have originated as the name of the title character in the 1788 novel Etelka by Dugonics András.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hungarian
The Story of Etelka
Etelka first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1888, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1888: 5 births, good for #1,276 nationwide. Its most recent appearance in the national data came in 1888 (5 births); the name has since faded from the published rankings. In total, more than 5 Etelkas have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1880s through the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Etelka
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Etelka. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Etel
Notable people named Etelka
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- Etelka Barsi-Pataky (1941–2018), Hungarian politician
- Etelka Freund (1879–1977), Hungarian pianist
- Etelka Gerster (1855–1920), Hungarian soprano
- Etelka Kenéz Heka (1936–2024), Hungarian writer and singer
- Etelka Keserű (1925–2018), Hungarian economist and politician
- Etelka Kispál (born 1941), Hungarian Olympic sprinter
- Etelka A. Leadlay (born 1947), British botanist
- Etelka Szapáry (1798–1876), Hungarian noble
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Names that sound like Etelka
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About the name Etelka
Etelka is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1888 and has accumulated 5 births in the dataset. Etelka's peak popularity came in 1888 when it ranked #1,276. Use the chart and map above to compare Etelka's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.