Eka is from the Georgian ეკა (Eka) — Georgian diminutive of Ekaterine / Catherine (from Greek Aikaterinē — pure). A modern American baby name in the broader Georgian-Caucasian heritage aesthetic. Eka is one of the foundational Georgian feminine names — central to traditional Georgian Orthodox Christian heritage. Notable bearer: Eka Tkeshelashvili (born 1977) — foundational Georgian politician + Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2008) + Minister of Justice (2008-09) + Vice Prime Minister (2010-12) + foundational figure in post-Saakashvili Georgian democratic reform; Eka Beridze — foundational Georgian visual artist + foundational Tbilisi avant-garde. Foundational Georgian feminine name reflecting Georgian Orthodox heritage + the broader Georgian Catherine-diminutive family alongside Eka, Keti, Kate, Katuna, Nutsa.
Featured throughout Georgian heritage.
Eka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eka reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.