Aglaia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æɡləiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aglaia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country.
- MDMoldova1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 57K
- GRGreece≈1 in 62K
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 Aglaia 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.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
379 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Αγλαια in GR Greece.
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)
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Aglaia
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aglaia is read(measured from records)
Aglaia is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- English38%
one of the Graces
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A female given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Greek12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aglaia in Greek.
- Portuguese10%
a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Aglaia
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German9.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aglaia in German.
- Spanish6.3%
griego: ‘resplandor, belleza’; nombre de una de las tres Gracias.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
Aglaia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | 379 | 1 in 8.9K | 379 | — | — |
| RO Romania | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Aglaia | 4 |
| US United States | 204 | 1 in 1.6M | 203 | Aglaia | 46 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 321K | 1 | Aglaia | 3 |
| GR Greece | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 15 | Αγλαια | 51 |
| CY Cyprus | 148as Αγλαϊα | 1 in 8.6K | 148 | Aglaia | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 33 | 1 in 309K | 33 | — | 2 |
379 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); e-services.md — living population register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Aglaia 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.
Russian: from Greek. This was the name in classical mythology of one of the three Graces, but its acceptability for the Orthodox Church was due to the fact that it was also the name of a companion of St Boniface. It is of uncertain derivation, but is probably connected with AEGLE .
as a word
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)
- Aglaia Coroniob. 1834GBBritish art collector (1834–1906)
- Aglaia Pappab. 1903GRGreek painter (1904–1984)
- Aglaia Konradb. 1960BEAustrian-Belgian visual artist (born 1960)
- Nastassja Kinskib. 1961DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Aglaia Szyszkowitzb. 1968ATAustrian actress
- Aglaia Mortchevab. 1972BGBulgarian artist and actor
- Aglaia Anastasioub. 1986GRGreek synchronized swimmer
- Aglaya Sidikhinab. 1988not in their usual nameactress
- Aglaia Pezzatob. 1994ITItalian swimmer
- Aglaia Ravemusician
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 379 | #526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 203 | #37,938 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 33 | #17,949 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 13 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Aglaia mean?
- In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek, of mostly historical usage.
- Where does the name Aglaia come from?
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Aglaia Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Aglaia?
- In the etymology graph, Aglaé is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Aglaia?
- A machine transcription gives /æɡləiə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Aglaia a male or female name?
- Aglaia 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.
- In which country does Aglaia have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 379 people named Aglaia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Aglaia most common?
- Aglaia is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aglaia?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 379 people named Aglaia, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aglaiaThe 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, “Aglaia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.