Agnese

Girls' name

Pure, chaste

Agnese has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1919, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Agnese, 1988

1 in 739,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agnese: meaning, origin, and history

Pure, chaste

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agnese means

Agnese means “pure, chaste”, associated with hagnós.

Origin, language, and formation

Agnese is used in Italian and Latvian.

Agnese comes through Ancient Greek Ἁγνή, Ancient Greek ἁγνός and Ancient Greek ἁγνεία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agnes.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Agnese is pronounced /aɲˈɲe.ze/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Agnese between 1916 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1919; its best national rank was #4,256 in 1919.

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 Agnese?

Agnese had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988: 1 in 739,000; 5 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only: 1 in 356,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 512,128 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Agnese 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 1988 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 512,128 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agnese. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agneses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agnese was born before 1919 — so the typical Agnese is around 106 today.

Median birth year: 1919; About 106 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 31.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Agnese 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 1919 (6)
Years since peak: 106; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,256; 1919

Spellings of Agnese

Agnese is not the most common spelling — Agnes is, with 96.2% against Agnese's <0.01%.

Agnes96.2%159,517
Denese0.96%1,588
Anise0.75%1,242
Janese0.67%1,111
Anneke0.60%993
Agness0.45%747
Alese0.33%546
Agnese<0.01%16

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.

Agnese around the world

Where Agnese 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
2007–2019
#4,686
in 2019
France
1900–2018
#7,571
in 2018
South Australia
1951–1959
#625
in 1959

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.

Agnese 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: #4,256; 1919
Peak year: 1919; 6 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1988
All-time count: 16
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Agnese

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

Agnita Agnia Agnella Agnessa Agneta Agneda Agnesa Agnus Dinese Talese Calese Louese Dorese Lorese Donese Tynese Cerese Threse Alyese Tylese Lucchese Louiese Inese Catrese

Sibling names for Agnese

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

Lovie Hortense Lue Theda Rubye Winnifred Johnie Norine

For a brother

Casimir Edd Ora Mahlon Verne Haywood Buck Wilber

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