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Agni

#8,926 in 2025Boys' name

Fire

Agni has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2020. In 2025 it ranked #8,926 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Agni, 2025

1 in 414,000

Agni over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agni: meaning, origin, and history

Fire

Sanskrit

What Agni means

Agni means “fire”, associated with agní.

Origin, language, and formation

Agni is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Agni comes through Sanskrit अग्नि, Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hagníṣ, Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagnís and Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnís.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include anggara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Agni is pronounced [ˈaɡ.ni].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Agni between 2020 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,926 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,073 in 2020 to #8,926 in 2025.

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 Agni?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,926
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Agni sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agnis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agni was born before 2025 — so the typical Agni is around 0 today.

Median birth year
2025
About 0 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Agni 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
+3,147
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (8)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,926
2025

Spellings of Agni

Agni is not the most common spelling — Ali is, with 35.9% against Agni's 0.01%.

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.

Agni around the world

Where Agni 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
    1974–1974
    #683
    in 1974

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

Agni by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,926
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,147
Best rank ever
#8,926
2025
Peak year
2025
8 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Agni

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

AgnivAgnerAgnewMagniAgnes

Sibling names for Agni

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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