Eka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mother of the earth
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/eka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 674(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 15K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 674 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
mother of the earth
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #21 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 674 | listed | Eka | 244 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Eka | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Eka | 33 |
| SG Singapore | #619 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Eka | 27 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Eka | 10 |
| US United States | — | 277 | 1 in 1.2M | 232 | Eka | 107 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Eka | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the id-github-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Eka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Agni (५); Ardhandrisvara (N); Dattatreya (N);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
one; only. peerless; matchless; firm; unique.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Mother earth.
as a nameThe African book of names
In mch, to pick (strips of plant matter, such as wö'nö twine for baskets or kudawa for arrows and hangers)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ekajuk.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eka Tjipta Widjajab. 1923IDIndonesian businessman (1923-2019)
- Eka Vogelnikb. 1946SISlovenian illustrator, architect, painter, puppeteer and puppet designer, costumes creator, screenplay writer, film director and university teacher
- Eka Mamaladzeb. 1960GEGeorgian singer and pianist
- Eka von Kalbenb. 1964DEGerman politician
- Eka Kurniawanb. 1975IDIndonesian writer
- Eka Tkeshelashvilib. 1977GEGeorgian politician
- Émile Mpenzab. 1978BEnot in their usual nameBelgian footballer (born 1978)
- Eka Zguladzeb. 1978GEGeorgian politician
- Eka Ramdanib. 1984IDIndonesian footballer
- Eka Darvilleb. 1989AUAustralian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 232 | #31,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #31,104 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Eka mean, and where does it come from?
- mother of the earth Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Eka?
- A machine transcription gives /eka/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Eka a male or female name?
- Eka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Eka?
- In the etymology graph, Eko is a form of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ekaterine.
- In which country does Eka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 396 thousand people named Eka in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eka.
- How common is the name Eka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 277 people named Eka in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Eka compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Eka is the 21st most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ekaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eka” — the 21st most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.