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Etelka

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Etelka has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1888, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Etelka, 1888

1 in 59,900

Etelka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Etelka: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Etelka means

Etelka is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Etelka is used in Hungarian.

Etelka is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Etelka is pronounced [ˈɛtɛlkɒ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Etelka between 1888 and 1888. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1888; its best national rank was #1,350 in 1888.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Etelka?

Etelka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1888, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1888
1 in 59,900
5 of 299,468 births
Among girls only
1 in 35,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1888
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
41,516 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Etelka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1888 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 41,516 children born in 1888 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Etelka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Etelkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Etelka was born before 1888 — so the typical Etelka is around 137 today.

Median birth year
1888
About 137 years old
Biggest decade
1880s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1880s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Etelka rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1888 (5)
Years since peak
137
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#1,350
1888

Spellings of Etelka

Etelka is not the most common spelling — Stella is, with 74.1% against Etelka's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Etelka around the world

Where Etelka ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #581
    in 1957

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Etelka by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,350
1888
Peak year
1888
5 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1888
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Etelka

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Etelka

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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