Hecate (Ἑκάτη) is the Greek goddess of magic, crossroads, and the moon. The name derives from hekatos, "far-reaching" or "working from afar."
Hecate is rare as a given name — more often used in literature and witchcraft traditions. She appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth as the queen of witches.
Hecate 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 Hecate reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.