Tekle as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tekle

What is the meaning of the name Tekle ?

The baby name Tekle is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced TEK-leh.

Tekle is Georgian, Greek in Origin.

Tekle is the Georgian form of Greek Thekla, a feminine name traceable to Ancient Greek Θεόκλεια, Theokleia, later shortened as Θέκλα, Thekla. Its elements are theos, god or deity, and kleos, report, renown, glory; the compound’s literal sense is glory of God. The reduction from Theokleia to Thekla reflects contraction of the compound while preserving the initial the- and the kleos element in abbreviated form.

The name entered Christian naming through Saint Thecla, the ascetic heroine of the second-century Acts of Paul and Thecla, and spread in Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Orthodox contexts. Georgian თეკლე, Tekle, was borne by royal women such as Princess Tekle of Georgia, while related forms include Thecla, Thekla, Tecla, Tekla, and Slavic Fyokla. In modern use, Tekle is chiefly Georgian as a female name; an unrelated Ethiopic masculine Tekle, from ተክለ, plant, should be distinguished etymologically.