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Agatha

#1,703 in 2025Girls' name

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Agatha has been given to 9,491 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,703 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 218 recorded.

Babies named Agatha, 2025

1 in 27,600

Agatha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agatha: meaning, origin, and history

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Ancient Greek and English

What Agatha means

Agatha means “good”, associated with agathós.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Latin Agatha, from Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή (Agathḗ), from Ancient Greek ἀγαθός (agathós, “good”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Agatha (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Agatha is used in English, Cebuano, Dutch, German, Indonesian, Scots and Tagalog. Its origins include Ancient Greek and English.

Agatha comes through Latin Agatha, Ancient Greek Ἀγαθή and Ancient Greek ἀγαθός.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Agatha is pronounced /ˈæɡəθə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,491 girls were recorded with the name Agatha between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 218 in 1918; its best national rank was #365 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,116 in 2020 to #1,703 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,169 in 2015 to #1,703 in 2025.

How common is Agatha?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,600
120 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,703
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,150 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Agatha 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agatha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agathas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agatha was born before 1931 — so the typical Agatha is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,417
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1910s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (1,654).

Is Agatha 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
−90
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+413
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+466
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.0%
Peak was 1918 (218)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#365
1891

Spellings of Agatha

Agatha is not the most common spelling — Tabatha is, with 29.4% against Agatha's 14.4%.

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.

Where Agatha is used

Across 2016–2025, Agatha was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 15,910 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,448
  2. 2Florida1 in 6,250
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 7,692
  4. 4New York1 in 12,500
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 25,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Agatha around the world

Where Agatha 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
    1996–2025
    #792
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1965–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1930–2025
    #1,064
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Agatha

People whose public names include Agatha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Agatha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Agatha. Linked forms have their own page here.

AgataAgatheAgateAgotaAgátaAhataÁdegaÁgataÁgotaÀguedaÁgueda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Agatha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,703
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 413
Best rank ever
#365
1891
Peak year
1918
218 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,491
Count in 2025
120

Names similar to Agatha

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

TabathaAlethaDorthaLeathaTalithaArethaDorethaRethaEarthaAgataReathaTabithaDorothaLethaSamathaBirthaTabethaGerthaAlthaBerthaHerthaKeithaTamathaRutha

Names with a curve like Agatha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Agatha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LeoraUnaAdellaWilhelminaEulaliaPhilomenaLavinaMagdaleneZellaEldaLeonoraOna

Sibling names for Agatha

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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