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Ekko

Mostly boys · EK-oh · Greek

Ekko is a name of Greek origin, meaning “echo, sound”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

What does Ekko mean?

Greek: respelling of Echo

“echo, sound”

In Greek myth Echo was a nymph able only to repeat the last words spoken to her.

Say it
EK-oh

Is Ekko a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Ekko has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls and 12 boys in the US.

How popular is Ekko in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Ekko, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. It first appears in the records in 2017. 10 girls were also named Ekko in 2025 (9,454th for girls).

2025 had the most boys named Ekko of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.

Half of all the boys named Ekko in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 65 boys in the US were given Ekko or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,889, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.

2017Busiest: 12 in 20252025
Ekko in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
20249#8,307
202311#7,284
202210#7,762
20218#8,820
20208#8,734
20195#12,138
20180–
20178#8,835

Names like Ekko

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ekko

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