Entry № 5841 · Czech origin

Lenka Lenka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEN-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Czech
Meaning
"Bright, shining one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "bright, shining one".

Lenka is the Czech and Slovak diminutive of Helena or Magdalena.

Lenka is widely used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Bright. The Czech Helena.

The name in its native script.

Lenka
Transliteration
Lenka
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɛŋ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lenka stands.

Lenka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lenkas before her.

Real people
Lenka Kripac
Australian-Czech singer.
born 1978
In fiction
Lenka
Common in Czech fiction.

Names connected to Lenka.

The number behind Lenka.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lenka reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.