Etelka Explained

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 by .^{[1] [2]}

It is sometimes translated into English as Adelaide.^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Kálmán, Béla . The World of Names: A Study in Hungarian Onomatology . . 9789630513999 . 49 . 1978 . 30 August 2018 . Google Books.
2. Book: Sundberg, Kerstin . https://books.google.com/books?id=w2alHfnOsUkC&pg=PA115 . Modernisation and Tradition: European Local and Manorial Societies 1500-1900 . József Eötvös and the Age of Hungarian Reform . Nordic Academic Press . 2 . 9789189116405 . 115 . 1 January 2004 . 30 August 2018 . Google Books.
3. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=0j0oAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA34&ci=61%2C817%2C441%2C65 . The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar . Madame Etelka Gerster . The Queen Office . 34 . 1877 . 15 February 2021 . Google Books.