Agnese
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dal greco ἁγνός, ‘pura, casta’; nome di santa martire (304), 21 gennaio
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɲɲeze/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agnese is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia1 in 299
- XKKosovo≈1 in 19K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 299 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dal greco ἁγνός, ‘pura, casta’; nome di santa martire (304), 21 gennaio.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
How Agnese is read(measured from records)
Agnese 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.
- Italian43%
Dal greco ἁγνός, ‘pura, casta’; nome di santa martire (304), 21 gennaio.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Nome di origine greca/latina, da hagnḗ "pura, casta".
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma mais corrente de Agnes
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Latvian16%
Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Šķīstā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Agnese in English.
- Spanish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Agnese 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agnese 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #567 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 376 | Agnese | 142 |
| LV Latvia | — | 6,282 | 1 in 299 | 6.3K | Agnese | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 255K | listed | Agnese | 39 |
| US United States | — | 244 | 1 in 1.4M | 243 | Agnese | 95 |
| FR France | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 308K | 23 | Agnese | 112 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 21 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 274 | — | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 11 | 1 in 32K | 11 | — | — |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Agnese 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 French, forme italienne d’Agnès; étymologie/saint non visibles dans l’OCR fourni
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Agnes of Assisib. 1197ITnot in their usual namePoor Clare abbess
- Agnes of Montepulcianob. 1268ITnot in their usual nameDominican nun, wonderworker and saint
- Agnese Viscontib. 1363ITdaughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice Regina della Scala. She was consort of Mantua by her marriage to Francesco I Gonzaga
- Agnese Schebestb. 1813DEAustrian singer, opera singer and music educator (1813–1870)
- Agnese Nanob. 1965ITItalian actress
- Agnese Allegrinib. 1982ITbadminton player
- Agnese Pastareb. 1988LVLatvian race walking competitor (born 1988)
- Agnese Āboltiņab. 1996LVLatvian alpine skier (born 1996)
- Agnese Bonfantinib. 1999ITItalian association football player (born 1999)
- Agnese Durantib. 2000ITItalian rhythmic gymnast
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 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 6.3K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6.3K | #71 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 376 | #84 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 274 | #3,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 243 | #33,752 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 21 | #5,925 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 5 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 2 | #2,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #33,752 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2007 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Agnese mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dal greco ἁγνός, ‘pura, casta’; nome di santa martire (304), 21 gennaio.
- How do you pronounce Agnese?
- A machine transcription gives /aɲɲeze/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Agnese a male or female name?
- Agnese 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.
- What are other forms of the name Agnese?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Ines and Agnes are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Agnese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Agnese in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agnese.
- Where is Agnese most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Agnese is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 299 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Agnese?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 6,282 people named Agnese, about 1 in 299 residents.
- How common is Agnese compared with other names?
- In Italy, Agnese is the 567th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agneseThe 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, “Agnese” — the 567th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.