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 [hu] by Dugonics András [hu].[1][2]

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

People with the name

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Madame Etelka Gerster". The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar. The Queen Office. 1877. p. 34. Retrieved 15 February 2021 – via Google Books.