Agota
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Agatha
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɒɡotɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agota is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- RORomania≈1 in 229K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ágota in HU Hungary, RO Romania.
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, equivalent to English Agatha
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agota 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.
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: magyarnevek — given names by decade; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); 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)
Agota 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 Esperanto, singular future passive participle of agi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, future passive participle of agar
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)
- Agatha Fassettb. 1900HUnot in their usual nameborn:1900|died:1990|; Fassett, Agatha 1900-1990
- Ágota Herczegb. 1921HUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Ágota Sebőb. 1934HUHungarian swimmer
- Ágota Kristófb. 1935HUHungarian Swiss writer, poet, novelist and playwright (1935–2011)
- Ágota Bujdosób. 1943HUHungarian handball player
- Ágota Kapuib. 1955RORomanian poet, editor
- Ágota Bozaib. 1965HUHungarian writer
- Ágota Fórisb. 1970HUHungarian linguist (1970-)
- Ágota Bauerb. 1986HUHungarian footballer
- Ágota Tóthb. 1987HUHungarian long track speed skater
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #21,020 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 15 | — |
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
- What does the name Agota mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Agatha Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Agota?
- A machine transcription gives /ɒɡotɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- Is Agota a male or female name?
- Agota 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 Agota have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Agota in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ágota.
- How common is the name Agota?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 26 people named Agota, about 1 in 392 thousand residents.
- How common is Agota compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Agota is the 617th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Agota?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agotaThe 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, “Agota” — the 617th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.