Agatha
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Greek 'good'; name of a 3rd-century Sicilian martyr
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æɡəθə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agatha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 29th most common given name.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.1K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Agatha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 297 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
184,481 named Agata, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Agathi in CY Cyprus.
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)
Greek 'good'; name of a 3rd-century Sicilian martyr.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Agatha is read(measured from records)
Agatha is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
Greek 'good'; name of a 3rd-century Sicilian martyr.
as a nameIrish first names
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Greek; good, kind, honourable
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Portuguese25%
alternative spelling of Ágata
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Agatha in Swahili.
- Spanish6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Agatha in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Agatha, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agatha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 184,481as Agata | 1 in 208 | 184K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 99,759 | 1 in 2.1K | 100K | Agatha | 135 |
| NG Nigeria | #956 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Agatha | 73 |
| TZ Tanzania | #559 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Agatha | 21 |
| US United States | — | 5,264 | 1 in 63K | 5.2K | Agatha | 297 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,506as Agata | 1 in 2.8K | 1.5K | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | 644as Αγαθη | 1 in 2K | 644 | Agathi | 16 |
| GY Guyana | #29 | 111 | 1 in 6.8K | 111 | Agatha | 3 |
184,481 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
Agatha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latinized version of the Greek name Agathé, from the feminine form of the adjective agathos ‘good’, ‘honourable’. This was the name of a Christian saint popular in the Middle Ages; she was a
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, Greek 'the good'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Agatha of Sicilyb. 235ITChristian saint and martyress (235–261)
- Agafia of Rusb. 1190PLnot in their usual namePrincess of Mazovia
- Agafia of Chernigovb. 1195not in their usual name(1195-1238)
- Agatha of Lorraineb. 1200Countess consort of Burgundy (c.1120–1147)
- Agatha Christieb. 1890GBEnglish mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
- Agatha Barbarab. 1923MTMaltese politician (1923-2002)
- Kim Westonb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican soul singer
- Agatha Ruiz de la Pradab. 1960ESSpanish fashion designer and Grandee
- Ágatha Bednarczukb. 1983BRBrazilian beach volleyball player
- Rayeb. 1997GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer-songwriter
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 85 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 100K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 99K | #321 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 36K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 13K | #1,826 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,771 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 528 | #321 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 264 | #876 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 264 | #876 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 120 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 111 | #483 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #3,771 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 11 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Agatha mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek 'good'; name of a 3rd-century Sicilian martyr. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Agatha a male or female name?
- Agatha 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.
- How do you pronounce Agatha?
- A machine transcription gives /æɡəθə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Agatha?
- In the etymology graph, Agata, Agathe and Jaga are forms of the same name in other languages; Aggie is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Agatha have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 184 thousand people named Agata, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Agatha?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99,759 people named Agatha in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Agatha compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Agatha is the 29th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Agatha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agathaThe 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, “Agatha” — the 29th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.