Aga
loc · Latin script
Meaning: } (aghaa): leader, ruler
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑːɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aga is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia≈1 in 29K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 69K
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.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ağa in AZ Azerbaijan, DE Germany, AT Austria and Ag-A in PH Philippines.
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)
} (aghaa): leader, ruler. Aga Khan: title of the Imam of the Ismaili sect of the Shi‘ites. Aga Khan Karim (b.1936): 49th Nizari Isma‘ili Imam
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 176 | Ağa | 10 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Ag-A | 34 |
| DE Germany | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Ağa | 65 |
| US United States | 299 | 1 in 1.1M | 688 | Aga | 172 |
| HR Croatia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 76 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Ağa | 11 |
| NO Norway | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 1.6K | — | 22 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Aga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Title of respect.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In tuw-pro, rain
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In bnp, canoe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, stick or candle of a leaf-wrapped pitch, which serves as a numerable unit of trade and a light source
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, agha (honorific for high officials used in Turkey and certain Muslim countries)
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)
- Aqil Aghab. 1820PSnot in their usual namestrongman in Palestine
- Kharaman-Khan Nazare Agab. 1877FRFrench military officer of Persian origin (1877-1955)
- Masami Agab. 1903JPbureaucrat
- Kamer Aga-Oglub. 1903USTurkish-American curator (1903–1984)
- Anu Agab. 1942INIndian billionaire
- Hanne Agab. 1947NONorwegian writer
- Knut Aga jr.b. 1971NONorwegian sports coach and association football player
- Ruti Agab. 1994ETEthiopian athlete
- Maria-Laura Agab. 1994BEBelgian footballer
- Oscar Agab. 2001NONorwegian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.6K | #663 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 781 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 688 | #35,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 565 | #39,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 358 | #54,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 229 | #29,557 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 76 | #9,809 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 70 | #29,557 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 61 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 44 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #18,925 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #21,737 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Aga come from?
- } (aghaa): leader, ruler. Aga Khan: title of the Imam of the Ismaili sect of the Shi‘ites. Aga Khan Karim (b.1936): 49th Nizari Isma‘ili Imam Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Aga?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑːɡə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Aga mean?
- Recorded meaning: } (aghaa): leader, ruler.
- In which country does Aga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Aga in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ağa.
- How common is the name Aga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 299 people named Aga in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Aga?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agaThe 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, “Aga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.