Agama

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Agama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 455K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 1.3M
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

195 people, 2010

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 455K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Agama 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.

Where Agama is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1951 in 1.7M236Agama6
ES Spain1101 in 455K110——
AR Argentina351 in 1.3M35——
IN India——2Agama5
NG Nigeria——listedAgama8

195 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Agama is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Egypt

    Also written Ägämä, Agamä

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Agama 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.

  • Dattatreya (N); Kala (N); Siva (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • feminine of अगम

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • More than, or too much.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In mdh, religion

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ban, religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)

    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)

18501900195020002050José Agama, b. 1889G. K. Agama, b. 1933Elena Sainz, b. 2001
  • José Agamab. 1889PHforester in Borneo (1889 - )
  • G. K. Agamab. 1933GHGhanaian economist and a governor of the Bank of Ghana
  • Elena Sainzb. 2001not in their usual nameMexican footballer (born 2001)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Agama
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020236#85,336
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010195#93,921
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—110#25,722
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—110#25,650
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—35—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—21#19,981
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Agama mean, and where does it come from?
Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Agama have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 195 people named Agama, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agama.
Where is Agama most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Agama is densest in Spain — about 1 in 455 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Agama?
In the United States, the national register counted 195 people named Agama in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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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, “Agama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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