Agatón

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Agathon

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Agatón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 48K
  • COColombia≈1 in 86K

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 Agatón 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,900 people, est.

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Agaton in PH Philippines, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 1 more and Agatao in BR Brazil.

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)

Agathon

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Agatón 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 Agatón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈3,900 est.≈1 in 28KlistedAgaton20
VE Venezuela≈590 est.≈1 in 48K—Agaton17
CO Colombia≈570 est.≈1 in 86K—Agaton34
US United States2831 in 1.2M288Agaton61
BR Brazil183as Agatao1 in 1.2M183Agatao20
SE Sweden≈44 est.≈1 in 230K734—3
DK Denmark35as Agathon1 in 168K35——

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Agatón is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Agaton

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Agaton

1 further group 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)

Agatón 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.

  • In Spanish, Griego Agathon: 'el hombre bueno'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • El vencedor

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

175018001850190019502000Agathon Jean François Fain, b. 1778Agathon Benary, b. 1807Agathon Meurman, b. 1826Heinrich Agathon Bernstein, b. 1828Agathon Léonard, b. 1841Knut Agathon Wallenberg, b. 1853Kasimir Leino, b. 1866Agathon Fabergé, b. 1876Antti Tulenheimo, b. 1879Agathon Rwasa, b. 1964
  • Agathon Jean François Fainb. 1778FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian (1778-1837)
  • Agathon Benaryb. 1807DEnot in their usual nameGerman philologist, educationist and linguist (1807-1860)
  • Agathon Meurmanb. 1826FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician (1826–1909)
  • Heinrich Agathon Bernsteinb. 1828PLnot in their usual nameGerman naturalist, zoologist and explorer (1828-1865)
  • Agathon Léonardb. 1841FRnot in their usual nameFrench sculptor (1841–1923)
  • Knut Agathon Wallenbergb. 1853SEnot in their usual nameSwedish banker, politician and diplomat (1853-1938)
  • Kasimir Leinob. 1866FInot in their usual nameFinnish opinion journalist and writer (1866–1919)
  • Agathon Fabergéb. 1876FInot in their usual nameRussian goldsmith (son of Carl) and philatelist (1876-1951)
  • Antti Tulenheimob. 1879FInot in their usual namePrime Minister of Finland (1879–1952)
  • Agathon Rwasab. 1964BInot in their usual nameBurundian politician, leader of the Congrès National pour la Libération (CNL)

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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 Agatón mean, and where does it come from?
Agathon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Agatón have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Agatón in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agaton.
How common is the name Agatón?
In the United States, the national register counted 283 people named Agatón in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 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, “Agatón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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