Ag-Ag
surname · Latin script
Ag-Ag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Agag represents the archetypal enemy of God's people; his survival (spared by Saul) symbolizes incomplete obedience to God, while his execution by Samuel represents divine justice and zeal.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 95K
- SYSyria≈1 in 97Kfew records
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Agag in PH Philippines, EG Egypt, US United States and 5 more.
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)Agag represents the archetypal enemy of God's people; his survival (spared by Saul) symbolizes incomplete obedience to God, while his execution by Samuel represents divine justice and zeal.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where the surname Ag-Ag is found
(measured from records)Ag-Ag 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Agag | 36 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Agag | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 92K | listed | Agag | 6 |
| SY Syria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Agag | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Agag | 17 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 141 | Agag | 84 |
| LY Libya | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Agag | 7 |
| RE Réunion | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Agag | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Ag-Ag 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 Filipino, sifted; sieved (of grains, sand, flour, etc.)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ag-Ag mean, and where does it come from?
- Agag represents the archetypal enemy of God's people; his survival (spared by Saul) symbolizes incomplete obedience to God, while his execution by Samuel represents divine justice and zeal. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ag-Ag?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Ag-Ag in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agag. After it come Philippines, Algeria, Syria and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ag-Ag?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Ag-Ag in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ag-agThe 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
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, “Ag-Ag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.