Agneta

Girls' name

Form of Agnes

Agneta has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Agneta, 1917

1 in 401,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agneta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Agnes

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agneta means

Agneta is a form of Agnes.

Origin, language, and formation

Agneta is used in Estonian and Swedish.

Agneta comes through Swedish Agneta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agnes and Agnete.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Agneta is pronounced /aŋ²neːta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Agneta between 1917 and 1917. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,597 in 1917.

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 Agneta?

Agneta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1917, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1917: 1 in 401,000; 5 of 2,006,698 births
Among girls only: 1 in 216,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1917: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 278,189 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Agneta 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 1917 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 278,189 children born in 1917 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agneta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agnetas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agneta was born before 1917 — so the typical Agneta is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Agneta 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 1917 (5)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,597; 1917

Spellings of Agneta

Agneta is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 48.6% against Agneta's <0.01%.

Anita48.6%215,165
Agnes36.0%159,517
Greta6.3%27,786
Annetta2.0%8,814
Aleta1.5%6,446
Arnetta0.73%3,248
Neta0.73%3,226
Waneta0.56%2,466

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.

Agneta around the world

Where Agneta 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.

France
1986–1986
#3,399
in 1986

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Agneta 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: #4,597; 1917
Peak year: 1917; 5 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 1917
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Agneta

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

Agneda Agnesa Agnese Ogreta Gleeta Voleta Myreta Loweta Elreta Rozeta Deveta Laleta Dameta Jameta Jaketa Riketa Arjeta Orneta Anieta Lureta Koketa Agnus Agnessa Beleta

Sibling names for Agneta

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

Nelle Orpha Harriette Winnifred Maurine Johnie Dovie Lura

For a brother

Regis Meyer Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Isadore

Explore around Agneta

Top names of 1917, Agneta's peak year The 1910s in full Other names that peaked in 1917 Girls' names starting with A Swedish Girl Names