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Agnieszka

Girls' name

Pure; chaste, through Ἁγνή

Agnieszka has been given to 233 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1990, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Agnieszka, 2020

1 in 477,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Agnieszka: meaning, origin, and history

Pure; chaste, through Ἁγνή

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Agnieszka means

Agnieszka belongs to the name family reached through Agnieszka → Ἁγνή. Its meaning is “pure; chaste”.

Origin, language, and formation

Agnieszka is used in Polish.

Agnieszka comes through Ancient Greek Ἁγνή.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Agnes and Ἁγνή.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Agnieszka is pronounced /aɡˈɲɛʂ.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 233 girls were recorded with the name Agnieszka between 1979 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1990; its best national rank was #4,229 in 1990.

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 Agnieszka?

Agnieszka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Agnieszka 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 2020 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 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Agnieszka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Agnieszkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Agnieszka was born before 1991 — so the typical Agnieszka is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
233
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1990s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Agnieszka 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (23)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,229
1990

Where Agnieszka is used

Across 1910–2025, Agnieszka was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 235,131 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 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. Agnieszka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Agnieszka around the world

Where Agnieszka 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
    2002–2019
    #3,541
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2009–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • France
    1926–2025
    #6,379
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2003
    #575
    in 2003
  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #2,443
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1973–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Agnieszka 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
#4,229
1990
Peak year
1990
23 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
233
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Agnieszka

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

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Sibling names for Agnieszka

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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