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Agness

Girls' name

Variant of Agnes

Agness has been given to 747 babies in the U.S. since 1885. 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 1923, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Agness, 2014

1 in 741,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agness: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Agnes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agness means

Agness is a variant of Agnes.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Agness is used in English (African).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈæɡ.nɪs/ for Agness.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Agness → Agnes. The family’s meaning is “pure, chaste”, recorded in English with the source elements hagnós.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agnes.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 747 girls were recorded with the name Agness between 1885 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1923; its best national rank was #921 in 1885.

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 Agness?

Agness had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Agness 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agness. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agnesss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agness was born before 1921 — so the typical Agness is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.67%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (231).

Is Agness 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (38)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#921
1885

Spellings of Agness

Agness is not the most common spelling — Agnes is, with 97.4% against Agness's 0.46%.

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 Agness is used

Across 1910–2025, Agness was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 803,151 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Agness has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Agness around the world

Where Agness 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.

  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Agness 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
#921
1885
Peak year
1923
38 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
747
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Agness

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

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Sibling names for Agness

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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