Eka
Its meaning points to being "one, first". The name is rare in Poland: only about 136 people carry it, almost all women, and no girls have been given it in recent years.
Eka Pronunciation
Eka is pronounced E-kah (/ˈɛka/).
What Eka means
Where Eka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eka names the number one. The word means "one" and "first", and in Sanskrit eka is exactly that, the first counting word. This is a rare thing for a given name. Most names point to a saint, a flower, or a quality. Eka points to a number.
That number left a mark on science. When Dmitri Mendeleev predicted elements missing from his table, he labelled them with the prefix eka. Eka-aluminium turned out to be gallium. Eka-silicon became germanium. The prefix came from the Sanskrit eka, meaning roughly "one step beyond". So the name that means "first" sits inside the history of chemistry.
For a Polish child, Eka is short and blunt. It fits a class register with room to spare. Say it once and it is learned.
The meanings stay close to the origin here. Pierwsza, jedyna. First, and the only one. There is no long saint's tale behind Eka, no name-day fixed in the calendar. Just the number, and the two Polish words for it: pierwsza, jedyna.
How many people are named Eka
1 in 173414 women in Poland is named Eka. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2826 among female names.
Eka as a middle name
Eka is a first name for 136 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2307th, between Eitan (16) and Eray (16).
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#2305 Edvard16
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#2306 Eitan16
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#2307 Eka16
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#2308 Eray16
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#2309 Esneider16