Jitka
given name · Czech · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jitka is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Czech and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Judith.
- CZCzechia1 in 68◐
- ISIceland1 in 58K
- SESweden1 in 179K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈157K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 6 ●
- 1 in 68 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
20 records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Йитка in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Judith
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 156,374 | — | 1 in 68 | 156K | — | — |
| US United States | 297△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 297 | Jitka | 6 |
| ES Spain | 79△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 633K | 79 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 57 | — | 1 in 179K | 57 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 52 | 0 rec. | 1 in 332K | 52 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 29 | — | 1 in 1.3M | 29 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 17 | — | 1 in 249K | 19 | — | — |
| RU Russia | 12 | 2 rec. | — | — | Йитка | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | — | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 7 | — | 1 in 300K | 7 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 6 | — | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 66 | — | — |
Roughly 156K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 68). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Czech730K99%
- English2.5K1%
- German1.1K1%
- Spanish5551%
- French4101%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | 729,732 | 99% |
| English | 2,455 | 1% |
| German | 1,122 | 1% |
| Spanish | 555 | 1% |
| French | 410 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jitka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, im 20. Jh. entlehnter weibl. Vom., tsche chische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Czech: pet form of Judita (see JUDITH ).
as a word
In Russian, var of Jitka.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 46 |
| 2000 | 43 |
| 2001 | 43 |
| 2002 | 41 |
| 2003 | 41 |
| 2004 | 42 |
| 2005 | 44 |
| 2006 | 44 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 48 |
| 2009 | 47 |
| 2010 | 47 |
| 2011 | 48 |
| 2012 | 49 |
| 2013 | 52 |
| 2014 | 51 |
| 2015 | 48 |
| 2016 | 49 |
| 2017 | 49 |
| 2018 | 50 |
| 2019 | 51 |
| 2020 | 49 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jitka Zelenohorskáb. 1946CZCzech actress
- Jitka Molavcováb. 1950CZCzech actress, singer
- Jitka Zelenkováb. 1950CZCzech singer
- Jitka Smutnáb. 1952CZCzech actress
- Jitka Schneiderováb. 1973CZCzech actress (*1973)
- Jitka Klimkováb. 1974CZCzech footballer and manager
- Jitka Čvančarováb. 1978CZCzech actress, presenter and singer
- Jitka Kocurováb. 1979CZCzech actress and model
- Jitka Moučkováb. 1979CZCzech actress
- Jitka Bohob. 1991CZCzech singer and model
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●
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 156K | #31 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 78K | #36 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 78K | #36 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 297 | #29,690 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 79 | #19,021 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 71 | #9,259 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 66 | #10,180 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 57 | #12,578 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 52 | #8,223 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 52 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 51 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 51 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 74 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jitka?
- We estimate roughly 157 thousand people bear Jitka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jitka have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 156 thousand people bear Jitka in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Jitka most common?
- Jitka is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 68 people carrying it.
- Is Jitka a male or female name?
- Jitka 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 does the name Jitka mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Judith
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Jitka”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.