Etelka or Etelke is a Hungarian given name. It is the female equivalent of Etele, a variant of Attila. It may have originated as the name of the title character in the 1788 novel Etelka by Dugonics András.[1][2]
People with the name
- Etelka Barsi-Pataky (1941–2018), Hungarian politician
- Etelka Freund (1879–1977), Hungarian pianist
- Etelka Gerster (1855–1920), Hungarian soprano
- Etelka Kenéz Heka (born 1936), Hungarian writer and singer
- Etelka Keserű (1925–2018), Hungarian economist and politician
- Etelka Kispál (born 1941), Hungarian Olympic sprinter
- Etelka A. Leadlay (born 1947), British botanist
- Etelka Szapáry (1798–1876), Hungarian noble
See also
- Coleophora etelka, a moth of family Coleophoridae
References
- ↑ Kálmán, Béla (1978). The World of Names: A Study in Hungarian Onomatology. Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 49. ISBN 9789630513999. Retrieved 30 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Sundberg, Kerstin (1 January 2004). "József Eötvös and the Age of Hungarian Reform". Modernisation and Tradition: European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900. Vol. 2. Nordic Academic Press. p. 115. ISBN 9789189116405. Retrieved 30 August 2018 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Madame Etelka Gerster". The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar. The Queen Office. 1877. p. 34. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via Google Books.
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