Metka
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Metka is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script.
- SISlovenia1 in 565◐
- HRCroatia1 in 77K
- RSSerbia1 in 535K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 39 ●
- 1 in 565 ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
388 records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 21 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #923 | 3,723△ | 178 rec. | 1 in 565 | 3.7K | Metka | 39 |
| US United States | — | 61 | 53 rec. | — | 108 | Metka | 22 |
| HR Croatia | — | 55 | 122 rec. | 1 in 77K | 57 | Metka | 21 |
| IT Italy | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Metka | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Metka | 6 |
| RS Serbia | — | 6 | 2 rec. | — | — | Metka | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Metka | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | Metka | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 24 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | — | 272 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | 1 rec. | — | 4 | — | 2 |
Roughly 3.7K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 565). 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●
- Hungarian7.5K83%
- Slovenian4575%
- Croatian4445%
- English2413%
- Portuguese1171%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 7,548 | 83% |
| Slovenian | 457 | 5% |
| Croatian | 444 | 5% |
| English | 241 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 117 | 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●
Metka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, Mett (strongly flavoured German sausage made from raw minced pork, which is preserved by curing and smoking)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nice, pleasant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 21 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 23 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 26 |
| 1998 | 17 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 17 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 30 years between 1992–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Metka Gabrijelčičb. 1934SISlovenian actress
- Metka Krašovecb. 1941SISlovenian painter (1941–2018)
- Metka Frankob. 1943SISlovenian actress
- Metka Munihb. 1959SISlovenian cross-country skier
- Metka Tekavčičb. 1961SISlovene economist
- Metka Jermanb. 1963SISlovenian alpine skier
- Metka Sparavecb. 1978SIswimmer
- Metka Lobnikb. 2001SISlovenian judoka
- Metka OcvirkSISlovene film actress
- Metka Ravnik-GlavačSIresearcher
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 3.8K | #69 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 3.8K | #71 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 3.8K | #71 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 3.8K | #70 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 3.8K | #71 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 3.8K | #72 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 3.8K | #74 |
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 · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Metka?
- We estimate roughly 3.8 thousand people bear Metka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Metka have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.7 thousand people bear Metka in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled metka.
- Where is Metka most common?
- Metka is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 565 people carrying it.
- How common is Metka compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Metka is the 923rd most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
- Is Metka a male or female name?
- Metka 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.
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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, “Metka” — the 923rd most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.