Hekate is from the Greek Ἑκάτη (Hekatē — worker from afar) — foundational from Greek hekatos (far-shooting/far-working) + foundational possibly related to foundational hekaton (hundred). A modern American baby name in the broader Greek-mythological heritage aesthetic. Hekate is one of the foundational Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek mythological heritage. The foundational name connects to foundational Hecate — foundational Greek goddess of foundational magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts, crossroads, and necromancy + foundational central to foundational *Hesiod's Theogony (~700 BCE) — foundational Hesiod gives Hecate exceptionally extensive praise (verses 411-452) + foundational only deity besides Zeus to possess foundational threefold power over earth + heaven + sea + foundational central to foundational pan-Greek religious heritage + foundational Hekate Triformis (Triple-formed) — foundational maiden + mother + crone + foundational central to foundational Eleusinian Mysteries (foundational ~1500 BCE-396 CE — foundational among most important Greek mystery religions) + foundational Hekate Soteira (Savior) in foundational Chaldean Oracles + foundational central to foundational Neoplatonic + Hermetic philosophical heritage; foundational also foundational Shakespeare's foundational Macbeth* foundational Three Witches consorting with Hecate; foundational central to foundational Wiccan + Neopagan heritage. Foundational Greek feminine name reflecting Greek mythological heritage.
Featured throughout Greek heritage.
Hekate 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hekate reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.