Agaté
surname · Latin script
Agaté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1461. From Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή (Agathḗ), from ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”). Cognate with English Agatha.
- USUnited States1 in 842K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 842K (inferred from the name graph)
395 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Agate in US United States, FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἈγαθήAgathḗ(measured from records)
- Ancient Greek rootἀγαθόςagathós“good”(measured from records)
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1461. From Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή (Agathḗ), from ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”). Cognate with English Agatha.
Sources 6
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A dictionary of surnames
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agaté counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 395 | 1 in 842K | 492 | Agate | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | 14 | Agate | 104 |
| LV Latvia | — | — | 1.1K | — | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 302 | — | — |
395 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Agaté mean, and where does it come from?
- First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1461. From Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή (Agathḗ), from ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”). Cognate with English Agatha. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A dictionary of surnames and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Agaté have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 395 people named Agaté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agate.
- Where is Agaté most common?
- Agaté is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 842 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Agaté?
- In the United States, the national register counted 395 people named Agaté in 2010, about 1 in 842 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agat%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
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These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Agaté”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.