Agamemnon
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˌæɡəˈmɛmnɒn/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Agamemnon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 700K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.1M
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.8M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 705K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)leader of Greeks against Trojans
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Agamemnon is read
(measured from records)Agamemnon 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.
- English41%
leader of Greeks against Trojans
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus. He is famous for rallying the Greeks in the Trojan War, yet infamous for the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the commencement of the war.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Greek27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Agamemnon in Greek.
- Portuguese7.8%
alternative form of Agamenão
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Agamemnon 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)Agamemnon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | listed | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | — | — |
| FR France | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 13 | Agamemnon | 56 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | 1 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 7 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | — |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the babynamen-king-2020 register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)Agamemnon 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 Polish, Agamemnon (son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus, famous for rallying the Greeks in the Trojan War, yet infamous for the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at the commencement of the war)
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)- Agamemnon Imbertb. 1835FRFrench politician (1835-1914)
- Agamemnon Schliemannb. 1878USGreek politician and diplomat (1878-1954)
- Agamemnon Gilisb. 1891GRGreek footballer
- Memos Makrisb. 1913GRnot in their usual nameGreek-Hungarian sculptor (1913–1993)
- Agamemnon Gratsiosb. 1922GRGreek general
- Menios Koutsogiorgasb. 1922GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician
- Memos Ioannoub. 1958GRnot in their usual nameGreek professional basketball player and coach
- Agamemnon AvgerinosGRGreek politician
- Agamemnon MetaxasGRGreek politician
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #22,422 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #23,182 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,319 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Agamemnon come from?
- leader of Greeks against Trojans Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Agamemnon a male or female name?
- Agamemnon is a male 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 Agamemnon?
- In English /ˌæɡəˈmɛmnɒn/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Agamemnon mean?
- In English, One of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology. He is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope and the brother of Menelaus.
- In which country does Agamemnon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 people named Agamemnon in the United States, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Agamemnon?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Agamemnon in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agamemnonThe 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, “Agamemnon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.