Agapetus

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Agapetus is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: papal name.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 11M◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 17M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

472 ●

in 2 countries

Sources
33 ●

262 records

Official registry-verified

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Agapetos in AU Australia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

papal name

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Agapetus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States251246 rec.—listedAgapetus33
AU Australia67 rec.——Agapetos6
FI Finland———57——
VA Vatican City———2——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English24350%
  • Swahili19440%
  • French112%
  • Spanish82%
  • German61%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English24350%
Swahili19440%
French112%
Spanish82%
German61%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Agapetus is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name10 records spelled Agapetus18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Agapito, Agápito, Agåpîto, Agapitus, Agapíto

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

0500100015002000Agapetus I, b. 490Agapetus II, b. 900Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, b. 1001Johan Agapetus Törngren, b. 1772Antti Lastu, b. 1882

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Agapetus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—57#7,257
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#15,334
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—8—
VA Vatican CityHoly See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names)—2#27
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Agapetus?
Our records include 472 bearers of Agapetus across 2 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Agapetus have the most bearers?
Agapetus is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled agapetus.
What does the name Agapetus mean?
Recorded meaning: papal name
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Agapetus”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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