Agness

given name · Swahili · Latin script

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

Agness is a given name, most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk. see Agass . • Current frequencies: GB 25, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 19 • Main GB location 1881: London English: see Agnes .

rarermore common
  • ZMZambia1 in 219◐
  • MWMalawi1 in 282
  • TZTanzania1 in 1.4K

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

≈206 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
114 ●

13K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.1M ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk. see Agass . • Current frequencies: GB 25, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 19 • Main GB location 1881: London English: see Agnes .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Agness is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZM Zambia#199,70593 rec.—7Agness22
TZ Tanzania#769,6384.3K rec.——Agness28
KE Kenya#6253,752361 rec.——Agness15
NG Nigeria—1,6822.2K rec.——Agness26
MW Malawi#161,4725 rec.——Agness14
ZA South Africa—639623 rec.——Agness12
IN India—33950 rec.—2Agness8
GB United Kingdom—254307 rec.——Agness25
US United States—1823.7K rec.1 in 1.8M219Agness114
AU Australia—99113 rec.—1Agness29
UG Uganda#244829 rec.——Agness13
ID Indonesia—7424 rec.——Agness25

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

Languages●

  • Swahili23K72%
  • English5K16%
  • Latvian4391%
  • Hindi4261%
  • Spanish2611%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Swahili22,62072%
English4,98516%
Latvian4391%
Hindi4261%
Spanish2611%

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

Over time●

01020304019001950200038 · 1923

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Agness in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2014
Yearrecords
18856
18888
18905
18918
18928
18936
18947
18987
18995
19009
19019
190211
19036
19047
19059
19069
19077
190812
19097
191012
191112
191216
191311
191425
191518
191621
191726
191825
191930
192022
192131
192226
192338
192418
192514
192633
192713
192821
192915
193020
193118
193211
193312
193410
193515
19368
19379
193816
19398
19406
19417
19439
194410
19455
19555
20145

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1885–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Agness
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010219#85,357
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—219#1,938
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020204#95,802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000204#85,297
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020182#40,711
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192338—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192633—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192131—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191930—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192226—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191726—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#19,373

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 166 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Agness?
We estimate roughly 206 people bear Agness (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Agness have the most bearers?
Agness is most frequently recorded in Zambia, where it is most often spelled agness.
How common is Agness compared with other names?
In Zambia, Agness is the 19th most common given name of 8,241 given names recorded there.
Is Agness a male or female name?
Agness 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 Agness mean?
Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Suffolk. see Agass . • Current frequencies: GB 25, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 19 • Main GB location 1881: London English: see Agnes .
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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, “Agness” — the 19th most common given name in Zambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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