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Ekta

Girls' name

Unity, oneness

Ekta has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ekta, 2005

1 in 769,000

Ekta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ekta: meaning, origin, and history

Unity, oneness

Sanskrit

What Ekta means

Ekta means “unity, oneness”, associated with ekatā.

Origin, language, and formation

Ekta is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 112 girls were recorded with the name Ekta between 1984 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1991; its best national rank was #7,552 in 1991.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ekta?

Ekta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ekta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ekta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ektas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ekta was born before 1993 — so the typical Ekta is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Ekta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (11)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,552
1991

Spellings of Ekta

Ekta is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 31.3% against Ekta's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ekta is used

Across 1910–2025, Ekta was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 633,956 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ekta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ekta around the world

Where Ekta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2007
    #4,294
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ekta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,552
1991
Peak year
1991
11 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ekta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

YuktaMuktaSamyuktaAmuktaAvyukta

Sibling names for Ekta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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