Agyei

surname · Latin script

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

/æɡɪeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Agyei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 22nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 748K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 119K
  • FIFinland1 in 206K

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)

445 people, 2010

Sources
194 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Agyei 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 Agyei is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4451 in 748K830Agyei194
ES Spain—1991 in 251K199Agyei24
NL Netherlands—611 in 283K61Agyei32
NO Norway—461 in 119K46—13
BE Belgium—351 in 335K35Agyei17
FI Finland—271 in 206K27—6
GH Ghana#22——73KAgyei85

445 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: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

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

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Ghana, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Àgÿèî

48 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19902000Daniel Kofi Agyei, b. 1992Dan Agyei, b. 1997Dominic Agyei, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Agyei,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Agyei
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GH GhanaGhana top-100 surnames (surnam.es)—73K#44
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020830#30,199
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010445#47,614
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—199#16,658
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—199#16,590
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000141#114,852
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200761#27,110
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—46#27,874
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200835#33,309
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—27#39,493
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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

How do you pronounce Agyei?
A machine transcription gives /æɡɪeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Agyei have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 445 people named Agyei, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agyei.
Where is Agyei most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Agyei is densest in Norway — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Agyei?
In the United States, the national register counted 445 people named Agyei in 2010, about 1 in 748 thousand residents.
How common is Agyei compared with other names?
In Ghana, Agyei is the 22nd most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Agyei” — the 22nd most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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