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Agape

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Love

Agape has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1992. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2020, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% girls, 29% boys all-time.

Babies named Agape, 2024

1 in 669,000

Agape over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Agape over time

In 2025, Agape went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19922025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Agape: meaning, origin, and history

Love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agape means

Agape means “love”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Agape is used in Ancient Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /a.ɡá.pɛː/ for Agape.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 112 girls were recorded with the name Agape between 1992 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2020; its best national rank was #8,415 in 2020.

In the United States, 46 boys were recorded with the name Agape between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2019; its best national rank was #8,905 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,632 in 2020 to #12,048 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,130 in 2015 to #12,048 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Agape?

Agape had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Agape sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agape. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agapes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agape was born before 2016 — so the typical Agape is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Agape rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (12)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,415
2020

Spellings of Agape

Agape is not the most common spelling — Gale is, with 67.3% against Agape's 0.38%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Agape around the world

Where Agape ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    2013–2013
    #6,749
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Agape by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,415
2020
Peak year
2020
12 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,048
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,416
Best rank ever
#8,905
2019
Peak year
2019
8 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Agape

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AgamAgataAgatheAgapiAgapitaAgatha

Sibling names for Agape

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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