Jitka is a Czech female given name. It is a nickname of the Hebrew name

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, meaning ''He will be praised'' or ''woman of Judea''. The old Czech form is Jutka, derived from the German name Jutta. The name day is celebrated on 5 December. Pronounced "YIT-kah".

Notable bearers

* Jitka ze Svinibrodu (1003–1058), Czech princess * Jitka Babická (born 1939), Czech figure skater * Jitka Bartosová, Czech linguist * Jitka Čechová (born 1947), Czech actress * Judita Čeřovská (1929–2001), Czech jazz and swing singer * Jitka Čvančarová (born 1978), Czech actress * Jitka Harazimova (born 1975), Czech

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Jitka Janáčková Jitka Janáčková (born 22 May 1973 ın Mladá Boleslav) is a Czechoslovak-Czech sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1990s. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for Czechoslovakia, she was eliminated in the semifinals of both the ...

(born 1973, Mladá Boleslav), a Czech-Czechoslovak sprint canoer * Jitka Kocurová (born 1979), Czech actress and model * Jitka Landová (born 1990) Czech Biathlete * Jitka Legatová, a Czechoslovak slalom canoer * Jitka Licenik, Czech-Canadian journalist * Jitka Molavcová (born 1950), Czech actress and singer * Jitka Němcová (born 1950), Czech director and university educator * Jitka Obzinová (born 1964), Czech journalist * Jitka Seitlová (born 1954), Czech politician *

Jitka Schneiderová Jitka Schneiderová (born 23 March 1973) is a Czech film, television and stage actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the ...

(born 1973), Czech actress * Jitka Smutná (born 1952), Czech actress * Jitka Snížková (1924–1989), a Czech composer, music educator and musicologist * Jitka Traplová, a Czechoslovak slalom canoer * Jitka Válková (born 1991), a Czech beauty pageant contestant from Třebíč * Jitka Válová (1922–2011), Czech painter * Jitka Zelenková (born 1950), Czech pop singer * Jitka Zelenohorská (born 1946), Czech actress

Notable bearers

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