Agathe

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Agathe is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In the Dominican Republic it is the 53rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Du grec agathos, « bon »; sainte Agathe de Catane, martyre, fêtée le 5 février.

rarermore common
  • CYCyprus1 in 784◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 868
  • FRFrance1 in 1K

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

≈530K ●

across 10 countries

#989 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
448 ●

837K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 208 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

AgathaLatin · Portuguese●696K records
소이Hangul · Korean●11K records
זואיHebrew · Hebrew●2K records
ΖωηGreek · Greek●1.9K records
โซอThai · Thai●6 records
ᲖოეGeorgian · Georgian●1 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zoe in AR Argentina, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 13 more, Agatha in BR Brazil, NL Netherlands, IN India and 2 more, Zoi in PL Poland, GR Greece and Zoey in PH Philippines.

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●

recorded in French

Du grec agathos, « bon »; sainte Agathe de Catane, martyre, fêtée le 5 février.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Agathe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#319354,220127K rec.—3.5KZoe85
PL Poland—184,481△22 rec.1 in 208184KZoi8
GB United Kingdom#242138,58388K rec.—471Zoe251
AU Australia#164133,54964K rec.—579Zoe249
US United States#968125,281253K rec.1 in 2.7K125KZoe448
BR Brazil#49399,759△11K rec.1 in 2.1K100KAgatha136
FR France#25367,570175K rec.1 in 1K68KAgathe338
CA Canada#30941,9439.2K rec.—55Zoe169
MX Mexico#68635,53911K rec.——Zoe120
PE Peru#73234,5692.5K rec.—7.3KZoe36
BE Belgium#9415,0364.3K rec.—2.7KZoe83
HU Hungary—14,0970 rec.1 in 69314K—1

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

Languages●

  • French306K94%
  • German4.9K2%
  • English4.7K1%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)3.2K1%
  • Dutch1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French306,39094%
German4,9482%
English4,7061%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)3,2111%
Dutch1,3181%

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◐

Agathe is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10K records spelled Agathe12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, United States, Norway, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Ågăthe, Agathē, Aagăthe

  • a separate given name653 records spelled Agathe2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Agathé

48 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.

Other recorded senses●

Agathe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Du grec agathos, « bon ». Fête le 5 février (sainte Agathe).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, From Greek, meaning “good”; Greek origin.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Du grec agathos, «bon, vertueux».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, From Greek agathos, 'good'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In German, from Greek agathē 'good'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0510152019001920194019601980200020 · 1945

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Agathe in INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe), Guadeloupe, 1900–2007
Yearrecords
19005
19015
19025
19035
19045
19055
19065
19075
190910
19105
19125
191410
19165
191710
19185
191910
19205
19215
192210
192310
19245
192510
192610
19275
192910
193010
19315
19325
19335
193410
193510
19365
193710
19385
194010
19415
194210
194310
194410
194520
19465
19475
19485
19495
195110
195210
19535
195410
19555
19575
19595
19605
196210
19635
19645
19655
19695
19705
19715
19735
19745
19795
19875
19915
20015
20075

GP INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) — 66 years between 1900–2007. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Agathe Backer Grøndahl, b. 1847Agathe Habyarimana, b. 1942Agathe Uwilingiyimana, b. 1953Agathe de La Fontaine, b. 1972Agathe de La Boulaye, b. 1972Marie Cavallier, b. 1976Agathe Rousselle, b. 1988Agathe Schlencker, b. 1988Agathe Bonitzer, b. 1989Zaho de Sagazan, b. 1999

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 61 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Agathe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202460K#18
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.3K#1,405
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020444#22,312
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—404#2,347
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025376—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—147#4,260
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—142#1,254
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—142#6,608
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991117—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202483—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—81#9,809
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—80#1,757

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 535 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Agathe?
We estimate roughly 530 thousand people bear Agathe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Agathe have the most bearers?
Agathe is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled zoe.
Where is Agathe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Agathe is densest in Poland — about 1 in 208 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Agathe compared with other names?
In Argentina, Agathe is the 319th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Agathe a male or female name?
Agathe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Agathe mean?
Recorded meaning: Du grec agathos, « bon »; sainte Agathe de Catane, martyre, fêtée le 5 février.
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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, “Agathe” — the 319th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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