Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Hecate is associated with a goddess of fertility and witchcraft.
Hecate through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 5 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hecate’s family of names
Hecate has a related form in Hekate. In English usage, Hecate has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Εκάτη.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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