Ağa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ağa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lord, master.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 21K
  • GYGuyana1 in 150K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Azerbaijan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

lord, master

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ağa 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.

Where Ağa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈1,700 est.≈1 in 50K—Ağa28
AZ Azerbaijan≈500 est.≈1 in 21K176Ağa11
US United States2991 in 1.1M688—62
AF Afghanistan≈180 est.≈1 in 209K—Ağa2
BR Brazil641 in 3.3M136——
SI Slovenia81 in 263K8——
GY Guyana51 in 150K5——

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SURS — resident population given names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ağa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, Philippines, Austria

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Ag-A, Aga, Aega, Ägá, Agá

  • Russian given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ага, Аджа, Aha, Aģa, Aĝa

  • Spanish given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Türkiye, Brazil, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aga, Ag-A, Agá, Agà, Āġā

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Aga, Āġā

  • Uzbek name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aga

  • Bangla given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Aja, Aza, আজা, ଅଜା, Aga

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ağa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Kırlık kesimde geniş toprakları olan, sözü geçen, varlıklı kimse. 2. Halk arasında sayılan ve sözü geçen erkeklere verilen san. 3. Ağabey, büyük kardeş. 4. Yardım eden, cömert kimse. 5. Okuryazar olmayan yaşlıca kişilerin adlarıyla birlikte kullanılan san. 6. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu´nda bazı kuruluşları başında bulunanlara verilen resmî san.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Tatar, Latin spelling of ага (ağa, “a kind of respectful address”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In crh, elder brother

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

  • Faruk Yarmanb. 1954TRnot in their usual nameTurkish engineer (born 1954)

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ağa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—176—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Ağa mean, and where does it come from?
lord, master Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ağa a male or female name?
Ağa is a male 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.
In which country does Ağa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Ağa in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ağa.
How common is the name Ağa?
In the United States, the national register counted 299 people named Ağa in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Ağa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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