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Agathe

Girls' name

Good

Agathe has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2018, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Agathe, 2022

1 in 677,000

Agathe over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agathe: meaning, origin, and history

Good

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agathe means

Agathe means “good”, associated with agathós.

Origin, language, and formation

Agathe is used in Danish, French, German and Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agatha.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Agathe is pronounced /a.ɡat/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 49 girls were recorded with the name Agathe between 2000 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2018; its best national rank was #12,503 in 2018.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Agathe?

Agathe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Agathe 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agathe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agathes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agathe was born before 2014 — so the typical Agathe is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
49
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 55.1% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Agathe 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
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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 2018 (7)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,503
2018

Spellings of Agathe

Agathe is not the most common spelling — Agatha is, with 84.7% against Agathe's 0.44%.

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.

Agathe around the world

Where Agathe 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1900–2025
    #13
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #454
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #361
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Agathe 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
#12,503
2018
Peak year
2018
7 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
49
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Agathe

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

HeatheIantheAgamDortheAgapeAgataAgapiXantheMaytheKaetheMaitheBlitheBetheAgapitaBertheJuditheArletheEditheMartheJudytheGretheDiantheLeatheSamanthe

Sibling names for Agathe

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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