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 .
It is sometimes translated into English as Adelaide.
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 (1936–2024), 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 Burara etelka, a butterfly of family Hesperiidae Coleophora etelka, a moth of family Coleophoridae
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