Eka
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Eka is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Georgian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: mother of the earth.
- IDIndonesia1 in 530◐
- SGSingapore1 in 9.5K
- MYMalaysia1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈552 ●
- Sources
- 226 ●
- 1 in 275K ◐
across 9 countries
49K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
mother of the earth
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #43 | 171,424 | 31K rec. | — | listed | Eka | 226 |
| IN India | — | 9,230 | 13K rec. | — | 3.7K | Eka | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,745 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Eka | 31 |
| SG Singapore | #475 | 1,127 | 682 rec. | — | — | Eka | 27 |
| PH Philippines | — | 791 | 281 rec. | — | — | Eka | 15 |
| RU Russia | — | 289 | 65 rec. | — | — | Eka | 28 |
| US United States | — | 232 | 588 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 232 | Eka | 96 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 147 | 199 rec. | — | listed | Eka | 19 |
| PL Poland | — | 139 | — | 1 in 275K | 139 | — | — |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | 139 | 216 rec. | — | — | Eka | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | 110 | 144 rec. | — | — | Eka | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 89△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 562K | 89 | — | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian187K44%
- Georgian183K43%
- Hindi18K4%
- English6.6K2%
- Vietnamese6.4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 186,509 | 44% |
| Georgian | 182,552 | 43% |
| Hindi | 17,710 | 4% |
| English | 6,590 | 2% |
| Vietnamese | 6,355 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1920 | 2 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 2 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1933 | 2 |
| 1934 | 4 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 2 |
| 1937 | 7 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 11 |
| 1943 | 9 |
| 1944 | 7 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 7 |
| 1947 | 14 |
| 1948 | 15 |
| 1949 | 14 |
| 1950 | 13 |
| 1951 | 12 |
| 1952 | 16 |
| 1953 | 14 |
| 1954 | 21 |
| 1955 | 32 |
| 1956 | 23 |
| 1957 | 29 |
| 1958 | 20 |
| 1959 | 29 |
| 1960 | 27 |
| 1961 | 23 |
| 1962 | 21 |
| 1963 | 23 |
| 1964 | 17 |
| 1965 | 22 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 28 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 13 |
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 9 |
| 1975 | 12 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 4 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 4 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 78 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Eka?
- We estimate roughly 552 people bear Eka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Eka have the most bearers?
- Eka is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled eka.
- How common is Eka compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Eka is the 43rd most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Eka mean?
- Recorded meaning: mother of the earth
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 43rd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.