Given name
Ekta
“unity, oneness”
Ekta is a feminine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “unity, oneness.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ekta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 112
- 0 boys · 112 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,014 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ekta’s family of names
In English usage, Ekta has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form एकता.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ekta
- Ekta KapoorIndian film/TV producer, director (born 1975)
- Ekta BhyanIndian Paralympic athleteborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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