Reka

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rekha in IN India, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 21 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Reka is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Assamese given name19K records spelled Reka11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Malaysia

  Languages: Assamese, Hindi, Bangla

  Also written Réka, Ręka

• English given name16K records spelled Reka8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, India, United States, Germany

  Languages: English, Hungarian, German

  Also written Réka, Rèka

• Indonesian given name5.6K records spelled Reka6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Malaysia, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Reka, Réka, Rêka, Rëkã

• Ukrainian surname1.7K records spelled Reka14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Uzbek

  Also written Река, Reca, Рэка, Réka, Ryoka

• Turkish surname1.1K records spelled Reka11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, India, Netherlands

  Languages: Turkish, Chinese, Turkmen

  Also written Dere, Dereköy, Derekoy, Déré, Réka

• Polish surname752 records spelled Reka4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom, United States

  Also written Ręka, Rzeka, Réka

• Macedonian surname546 records spelled Reka34 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in North Macedonia, India, Serbia, Croatia

  Languages: Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian

  Also written Река, Raca, Réka, Раца, Rača

36 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●

Reka is also recorded in 6 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 reke

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Icelandic, to drive (forward or away)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of reke

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, to compile, arrange

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Faroese, to drive, to drift

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Malay, create, invent

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1889–2009. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabob. 1967RORomanian fencer
• Réka Szilvayb. 1972FIHungarian-Finnish musician
• Réka Pelsőczyb. 1973HUHungarian actress
• Réka Divinyib. 1974HUHungarian screenwriter and dramaturge
• Réka Mán-Várhegyib. 1979RORomanian-born Hungarian writer
• Réka Tenkib. 1986HUHungarian actress
• Reka Reneb. 1989HUHungarian actress and writer
• Réka Luca Janib. 1991HUHungarian female tennis player
• Réka Aschenbrennerb. 1994HUHungarian female association football player (1994-)
• Réka Puppb. 1996HUHungarian judoka

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●

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 Reka?

We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Reka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Reka have the most bearers?

Reka is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rekha.

Where is Reka most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reka is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 295 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Reka compared with other names?

In India, Reka is the 26th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Reka a male or female name?

Reka 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.