# Lenka (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lenka/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 82 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 82 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 117, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | 7,114 |
| 1964 | 5 | 7,331 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,053 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,842 |
| 2009 | 9 | 12,039 |
| 2011 | 5 | 18,391 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12,593 |
| 2017 | 6 | 15,159 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10,236 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,768 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10,103 |
| 2023 | 5 | 16,575 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 11 | 2,314 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,547 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## People named Lenka

- Lenka, Australian singer-songwriter
- Lenka Kotková, Czech astronomer, asteroid discoverer
- Lenka Ptáčníková, Czech and Icelandic chess player
- Lenka Vymazalová, Czech field hockey player
- Lenka Krobotová, Czech actress
- Lenka Masná, Czech runner
- Lenka Marušková, Czech sport shooter
- Lenka Reinerová, Czech writer, publicist and translator
- Lenka Dolanská Vlasáková, Czech actress
- Lenka Šmídová, Czech yachtsman
- Lenka Çuko, Albanian politician
- Lenka Bartáková, Czech basketball player (born 1991)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.