Agathe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Du grec agathos, « bon »; sainte Agathe de Catane, martyre, fêtée le 5 février
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɡat/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agathe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Togo it is the 76th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 744K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Du grec agathos, « bon »; sainte Agathe de Catane, martyre, fêtée le 5 février.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Agathe, 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)
Agathe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #322 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 60K | Agathe | 352 |
| CM Cameroon | #387 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Agathe | 16 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1 | Agathe | 5 |
| TG Togo | #76 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2 | Agathe | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 1 | Agathe | 77 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 61 | Agathe | 43 |
| US United States | — | 447 | 1 in 744K | 444 | Agathe | 158 |
| NO Norway | — | 376 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | — | 6 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Agathe 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 French, Du grec agathos, « bon ». Fête le 5 février (sainte Agathe).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, From Greek, meaning “good”; Greek origin.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du grec agathos, «bon, vertueux».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, From Greek agathos, 'good'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, from Greek agathē '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)
- Agathe Backer Grøndahlb. 1847NONorwegian pianist and composer (1847–1907)
- Agathe Habyarimanab. 1942RWwidow of former President of Rwanda Juvénal Habyarimana
- Agathe Uwilingiyimanab. 1953RWPrime Minister of Rwanda (1953-1994)
- Agathe de La Fontaineb. 1972FRFrench actress
- Agathe de La Boulayeb. 1972FRFrench actress
- Marie Cavallierb. 1976FRnot in their usual namesecond wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark
- Agathe Rousselleb. 1988FRFrench actress
- Agathe Schlenckerb. 1988FRFrench actress
- Agathe Bonitzerb. 1989FRFrench actress
- Zaho de Sagazanb. 1999FRnot in their usual nameFrench 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 61 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 60K | #18 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,405 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 444 | #22,312 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 376 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 83 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 61 | #138 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1951 | 10 | #467 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #22,312 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #22 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2022 | 1 | #2,258 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Agathe a male or female name?
- Agathe 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 Agathe?
- A machine transcription gives /aɡat/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Agathe mean?
- Recorded meaning: Du grec agathos, « bon »; sainte Agathe de Catane, martyre, fêtée le 5 février.
- What are other forms of the name Agathe?
- In the etymology graph, Agata, Agatha and Jaga are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Agathe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Agathe in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agathe.
- How common is the name Agathe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 447 people named Agathe in 2020, about 1 in 744 thousand residents.
- How common is Agathe compared with other names?
- In France, Agathe is the 322nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Agathe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agatheThe 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, “Agathe” — the 322nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.