Meaning of the surname Ek
Ek is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "star". It is a regional surname. Common across the Yucatán peninsula; also the name of a dye wood (palo de tinte).
Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.
In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Ek appears as either half of a pair: Ek García, López Ek. Read how the two-surname system works.