Rekha

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Rekha is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: fine.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 7 countries

#393 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
246 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 295 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

RekhaLatin · Hindi●4.6M records
เลขาThai · Thai●1.5K records
РекхаCyrillic · Russian●39 records
ראחיHebrew · Hebrew●5 records
লেখBengali · Bangla●4 records
레카Hangul · Korean●2 records
ᲠეხაGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
రఖTelugu · Telugu●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 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●

fine

Sources 1

  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Rekha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#265,742,5622.1M rec.—611Rekha215
BD Bangladesh#307101,4911.3K rec.—listedRekha32
HU Hungary#8233,096△1.1K rec.1 in 29533KReka132
PL Poland—21,602△6 rec.1 in 1.8K22KRekha7
GB United Kingdom—5,1083.4K rec.—listedRekha90
US United States—3,68334K rec.1 in 90K3.7KRekha246
TH Thailand—2,4521.9K rec.—#932,754เลขา51
MY Malaysia—2,1981.5K rec.——Rekha35
AU Australia—1,8801.9K rec.—1Rekha81
ID Indonesia—1,571515 rec.—listedRekha64
CA Canada—1,2411.2K rec.—2Rekha68
ZA South Africa—668691 rec.——Rekha26

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi4.6M87%
  • Bangla208K4%
  • English135K3%
  • Indonesian61K1%
  • Khmer43K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi4,564,78787%
Bangla208,3244%
English134,7393%
Indonesian61,0891%
Khmer42,5621%

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◐

Rekha is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name17K records spelled Rekha3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Rekhā, Rēkhā

23 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.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001920194019601980200054K · 1987

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Rekha in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1898–2017
Yearrecords
18981
189929
19009
19012
19085
19091
19121
19131
19142
19155
191615
191715
191845
191936
1920106
192144
192297
1923305
192462
192572
192628
192731
192831
192953
193053
193179
193299
193365
1934101
193592
1936116
1937135
1938131
1939160
1940170
1941231
1942311
1943265
1944437
1945436
1946549
1947624
1948459
1949549
1950825
1951900
19521,240
1953998
19541,510
19551,650
19562,040
19572,251
19582,992
19594,040
19603,958
19614,734
19627,563
19636,324
19649,185
19658,691
196611,091
196713,443
196813,016
196914,877
197017,798
197118,828
197225,057
197322,737
197425,626
197527,942
197631,904
197734,930
197837,120
197937,483
198031,147
198143,536
198250,339
198353,486
198451,876
198553,210
198651,170
198753,986
198847,996
198950,290
199048,109
199150,458
199253,156
199350,217
199442,887
199531,420
199619,630
199720,437
199810,571
1999568
200036
200132
20029
20041
20063
200730
20084,819
20094
20105,559
2011107
2012696
2013836
20143,608
20152,499
20167
201711

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 110 years between 1898–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19501960197019801990Rekha Pande, b. 1955Rekha Bhardwaj, b. 1964Rekha Verma, b. 1973Rekha Gupta, b. 1974Rekha Waheed, b. 1975Rekha Sharma, b. 1981Rekha Thapa, b. 1982

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 35 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Rekha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198754K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198353K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198553K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199253K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198452K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198651K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199150K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198250K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198950K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199350K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199048K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198848K—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 295 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rekha?
We estimate roughly 59 thousand people bear Rekha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Rekha have the most bearers?
Rekha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rekha.
Where is Rekha most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rekha is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 295 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Rekha compared with other names?
In India, Rekha is the 26th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Rekha a male or female name?
Rekha 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 Rekha mean?
Recorded meaning: fine
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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, “Rekha” — the 26th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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