Agnès
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Agnès is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Gốc Hy Lạp Agné: “tinh túy, trong sạch”; Latinh liên hệ Agnus “chiên con”, biểu tượng ngây thơ.
- HUHungary1 in 115(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 369
- DKDenmark1 in 823
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #968 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 442 (measured from records)
- 1 in 115 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Agnes in FR France, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 3 more and Ágnes in HU Hungary.
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)
Gốc Hy Lạp Agné: “tinh túy, trong sạch”; Latinh liên hệ Agnus “chiên con”, biểu tượng ngây thơ.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agnès 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #297 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Agnes | 79 |
| ID Indonesia | #286 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Agnes | 179 |
| HU Hungary | #30 | 85,338 | 1 in 115 | 85K | Ágnes | 176 |
| PH Philippines | #324 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Agnes | 127 |
| FR France | #184 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 113K | Agnes | 362 |
| SE Sweden | #204 | 27,614 | 1 in 369 | 28K | Agnes | 88 |
| DK Denmark | #490 | 7,129 | 1 in 823 | 7.1K | Agnes | 81 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Agnès is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du grec hagnos, « pure ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragonb. 1103FRDaughter of Duke William IX of Aquitaine and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse.
- Agnès Sorelb. 1422FRFrench Royal mistress (1422-1450)
- Élisabeth de Gaulleb. 1924FRnot in their usual namedaughter of Charles de Gaulle
- Agnès Troubléb. 1941FRFrench fashion designer and producer
- Monique Ohsan Bellepeaub. 1942MUnot in their usual nameformer vice president of Mauritius
- Agnès Godardb. 1951FRFrench cinematographer
- Agnès Buzynb. 1962FRFrench hematologist and politician
- Agnès Callamardb. 1963FRFrench human rights activist
- Agnès Jaouib. 1964FRFrench actress, film director, screenwriter and singer
- Agnès Pannier-Runacherb. 1974FRFrench politician and business executive
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 113K | #587 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1952 | 80 | #484 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 54 | #13,035 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 27 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #9,226 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Agnès mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gốc Hy Lạp Agné: “tinh túy, trong sạch”; Latinh liên hệ Agnus “chiên con”, biểu tượng ngây thơ.
- Is Agnès a male or female name?
- Agnès is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Agnès?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Ines and Inez are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Agnès have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 thousand people named Agnès in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agnes.
- Where is Agnès most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Agnès is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 115 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Agnès?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 85,338 people named Agnès in 2025, about 1 in 115 residents.
- How common is Agnès compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Agnès is the 297th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agn%C3%A8sThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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, “Agnès” — the 297th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.