Entry № 2815 · Sanskrit origin

Ekapadi Ekapadi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-kah-pah-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"One-footed Shiva"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "one-footed shiva".

Ekapadi is from the Sanskrit Ekapādī.

One-footed Shiva — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

एकपादी
Transliteration
Ekapādī
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.kɑːˈpɑː.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ekapadi stands.

Ekapadi 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.

Ekapadis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Aja Ekapad Rigveda 10.121 / Ekapada-Shiva iconography Elephanta Ellora
Sanskrit one-footed possessing-one-foot + eka one + pāda foot + Ekapāda-Śiva single-leg meditative-stance + Rudra Vedic + Rigveda 10.121 aja ekapāt unborn-one-legged-cosmic-form + Śiva-Aja-Ekapāda + Elephanta + Ellora Shiva-sculptures
Hindu Shaiva

Names connected to Ekapadi.

The number behind Ekapadi.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ekapadi reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.