Entry № 10443 · Hungarian origin

Tekla Tekla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEK-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hungarian
Meaning
"Glory of God"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "glory of god".

Tekla is the Hungarian form of Thekla, from the Greek for glory of God. It carries devotion and honour.

Glory of God — a Hungarian name.

The name in its native script.

Tekla
Transliteration
Tekla
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛk.lɒ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tekla stands.

Tekla 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.

Teklas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Tekla.

The number behind Tekla.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tekla reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.