Lenka

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lenka is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: —žr. Zelionka.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 45◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 532
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈242K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
165 ●

30K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 45 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

LenkaLatin · Czech●1.1M records
ЛенкаCyrillic · Russian●6.3K records
ΛενκαGreek · Greek●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ленка in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia, UA Ukraine and 1 more.

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●

—žr. Zelionka

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lenka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#19237,526△11K rec.1 in 45238KLenka165
RU Russia—8,6794.1K rec.——Ленка54
SK Slovakia#894,5931K rec.——Lenka118
CL Chile—1,824121 rec.—7Lenka38
MK North Macedonia#2061,753△3 rec.1 in 1.2K1.8KЛенка3
PE Peru—1,3471.1K rec.——Lenka25
FR France—1,345938 rec.——Lenka147
GB United Kingdom—1,191708 rec.—listedLenka74
US United States—9303.2K rec.1 in 358K930Lenka136
UA Ukraine—865917 rec.——Ленка18
HR Croatia#5867842.3K rec.1 in 5.4K784Lenka26
BY Belarus#219658417 rec.——Ленка6

Roughly 238K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 45). 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●

  • Czech1.1M96%
  • English7.9K1%
  • Croatian6.2K1%
  • Spanish5.2K1%
  • Slovak4.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech1,110,52496%
English7,9181%
Croatian6,2451%
Spanish5,2171%
Slovak4,5711%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lenka is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name91K records spelled Lenka8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Leṅkā, ଲେଙକା, Lenkā

  • English given name19K records spelled Lenka9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lëñkâ, Ĺéňķa, Leńka

  • a separate given name9.0K records spelled Lenka4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Lenkā, Leńka, Leṅkā

  • Hindi surname6.8K records spelled Lenka19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Telugu, Vietnamese

    Also written Lanke, Lanka, Lonka, లంకే, Ĺanka

  • Arabic given name767 records spelled Lenka3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Arab Emirates, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Lèñkä

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lenka is also recorded in 5 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 lenke

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of lenke

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, a Polish carrot cultivar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, ZELENKAUSKAS, Zelenkaūskas Km 2, Kn, Rk 4, Žsl 5; -ovskis V (of. Zelenkowski) (13) — žr. Zeliėnka.

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Šveicē, Bernes kantona dienvidrietumu daļā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

051015201940196019802000202020 · 1961

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Lenka in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1938–2021
Yearrecords
19381
19431
19452
19462
19482
19494
19503
19512
19523
19534
19546
19557
19563
19573
19584
19596
19607
196120
196214
196317
196413
196520
196613
196711
196817
196910
197012
197114
197212
197310
197414
197513
197620
197710
197817
19798
198011
198111
198211
198317
19844
198512
198613
198710
198812
198915
19904
199111
19929
199310
19944
19954
19963
19976
19985
19997
20006
20012
20023
20043
20051
20075
20081
20101
20122
20131
20153
20192
20217

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 69 years between 1938–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Lenka Peterson, b. 1925Lenka Termerová, b. 1947Lenka Machoninová, b. 1951Lenka Černá, b. 1966Lenka Dolanská Vlasáková, b. 1972Lenka Kotková, b. 1973Lenka Hlávková, b. 1974Laura Angel, b. 1974Lenka Krobotová, b. 1977Lenka, b. 1978

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 60 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Lenka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—238K#17
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—119K#19
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—119K#19
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6.8K#372
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—3K#2,260
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020930#13,117
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021784#614
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021632—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—294#3,602
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—291#6,765
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—269#3,279
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—206#996

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 308 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lenka?
We estimate roughly 242 thousand people bear Lenka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Lenka have the most bearers?
We estimate about 238 thousand people bear Lenka in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lenka.
Where is Lenka most common?
Lenka is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 45 people carrying it.
How common is Lenka compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Lenka is the 19th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Lenka a male or female name?
Lenka 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 Lenka mean?
Recorded meaning: —žr. Zelionka
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Lenka” — the 19th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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