Entry № 8426 · Other origin

Radka Radka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAHD-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Joy / care (Czech + Radka Toneff Norwegian jazz)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Czech)

A name that means "joy / care (czech + radka toneff norwegian jazz)".

Radka is from the Czech / Slovak / Bulgarian Radka — diminutive of Radmila (rad — joy, care + mila — gracious) or Radana. Radka is one of the Slavic feminine diminutives. Her album Fairytales (1982, with Steve Dobrogosz) was voted best Norwegian record of all time by Norwegian music critics (2011).

Joy / care (Slavic).

The name in its native script.

Радка
Transliteration
Radka
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑːd.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Radka stands.

Radka 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.

Radkas before her.

Real people
Radka Toneff
Czechoslovak-Norwegian jazz singer + Fairytales.
1952 – 1982
In fiction
Radka
Slavic joy / care.

Names connected to Radka.

The number behind Radka.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Radka reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.