Lekha
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lekha is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A ledger.
- HUHungary1 in 295◐
- INIndia1 in 567
- BDBangladesh1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈59K ●
- #393 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 246 ●
- 1 in 295 ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.1M records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Rekha in IN India, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 21 more, Reka in HU Hungary, ES Spain, RO Romania and 1 more, เลขา in TH Thailand and Řeha in CZ Czechia.
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 ledger.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #26 | 5,742,562 | 2.1M rec. | — | 611 | Rekha | 215 |
| BD Bangladesh | #307 | 101,491 | 1.3K rec. | — | listed | Rekha | 32 |
| HU Hungary | #82 | 33,096△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 295 | 33K | Reka | 132 |
| PL Poland | — | 21,602△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 1.8K | 22K | Rekha | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,108 | 3.4K rec. | — | listed | Rekha | 90 |
| US United States | — | 3,683 | 34K rec. | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Rekha | 246 |
| TH Thailand | — | 2,452 | 1.9K rec. | — | #932,754 | เลขา | 51 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,198 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Rekha | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,880 | 1.9K rec. | — | 1 | Rekha | 81 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,571 | 515 rec. | — | listed | Rekha | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,241 | 1.2K rec. | — | 2 | Rekha | 68 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 668 | 691 rec. | — | — | Rekha | 26 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi33K63%
- 4.8K9%
- English3.7K7%
- Khmer1.6K3%
- Assamese1.5K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 32,578 | 63% |
| 4,762 | 9% | |
| English | 3,731 | 7% |
| Khmer | 1,636 | 3% |
| Assamese | 1,479 | 3% |
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●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 3 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 4 |
| 1931 | 9 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 8 |
| 1934 | 19 |
| 1935 | 3 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 8 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 18 |
| 1940 | 8 |
| 1941 | 11 |
| 1942 | 22 |
| 1943 | 10 |
| 1944 | 27 |
| 1945 | 19 |
| 1946 | 20 |
| 1947 | 22 |
| 1948 | 9 |
| 1949 | 26 |
| 1950 | 17 |
| 1951 | 12 |
| 1952 | 24 |
| 1953 | 17 |
| 1954 | 22 |
| 1955 | 22 |
| 1956 | 21 |
| 1957 | 28 |
| 1958 | 25 |
| 1959 | 35 |
| 1960 | 21 |
| 1961 | 30 |
| 1962 | 39 |
| 1963 | 23 |
| 1964 | 35 |
| 1965 | 49 |
| 1966 | 37 |
| 1967 | 47 |
| 1968 | 38 |
| 1969 | 46 |
| 1970 | 43 |
| 1971 | 47 |
| 1972 | 51 |
| 1973 | 29 |
| 1974 | 58 |
| 1975 | 59 |
| 1976 | 61 |
| 1977 | 47 |
| 1978 | 56 |
| 1979 | 51 |
| 1980 | 41 |
| 1981 | 47 |
| 1982 | 59 |
| 1983 | 53 |
| 1984 | 70 |
| 1985 | 64 |
| 1986 | 69 |
| 1987 | 63 |
| 1988 | 52 |
| 1989 | 74 |
| 1990 | 93 |
| 1991 | 74 |
| 1992 | 72 |
| 1993 | 61 |
| 1994 | 63 |
| 1995 | 52 |
| 1996 | 40 |
| 1997 | 17 |
| 1998 | 18 |
| 2007 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 18 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 2026-09-12 data build · 203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lekha?
- We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Lekha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lekha have the most bearers?
- Lekha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rekha.
- Where is Lekha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lekha is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 295 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Lekha compared with other names?
- In India, Lekha is the 26th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Lekha mean?
- Recorded meaning: A ledger.
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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, “Lekha” — the 26th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.