Agda

Girls' name

English equivalent of Agatha

Agda has been given to 52 babies in the U.S. since 1893. 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 1915, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Agda, 1924

1 in 397,000

Agda over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agda: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Agatha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agda means

Agda is a English equivalent of Agatha.

Origin, language, and formation

Agda is used in Faroese and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agatha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 girls were recorded with the name Agda between 1893 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,177 in 1893.

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.

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How common is Agda?

Agda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1924: 1 in 397,000; 6 of 2,381,562 births
Among girls only: 1 in 208,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1924: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 275,130 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Agda 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 1924 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 275,130 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agdas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agda was born before 1898 — so the typical Agda is around 127 today.

Median birth year: 1898; About 127 years old
Biggest decade: 1890s; 59.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1890s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Agda 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 1915 (10)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,177; 1893

Spellings of Agda

Agda is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 32.2% against Agda's <0.01%.

Anna32.2%914,859
Ava12.1%344,097
Wanda9.9%281,214
Ida6.6%187,929
Alma5.8%163,723
Ana3.9%111,359
Ada3.8%106,905
Aria3.4%95,674

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.

Agda 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: #1,177; 1893
Peak year: 1915; 10 that year
First recorded: 1893
Last recorded: 1924
All-time count: 52
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Agda

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

Magda

Sibling names for Agda

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Hettie Catharine

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Hyman Regis

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