Agatha

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Agatha, also Agata, is a feminine given name derived from the Greek feminine name แผˆฮณฮฌฮธฮท, which is a nominalized form of แผ€ฮณฮฑฮธฮฎ, i.e. the feminine form of the adjective แผ€ฮณฮฑฮธฯŒฯ‚ "good". It was the name of St. Agatha of Sicily, a third-century Christian martyr.

From Wikipedia

Agatha first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 64 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1952 with 194 babies (rank #80 that year). In 2017 it was given to 1 girls (rank #31). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Agatha

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Agatha yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

3,003
Total babies (all years)
64
Years in the data
194
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952194#80
1953158#98
1954143#111
1955165#96
1956151#115
1957150#113
1958136#140
1959169#110
1960150#119
1961134#136
1962150#125
1963137#138
1964106#167
196598#177
196683#206
196777#210
196896#189
196963#276
197062#278
197157#278
197241#331
197330#388
197431#372
197520#468
197625#395
197717#498
197819#467
197915#539
198025#435
198125#427
198219#483
198315#574
198415#569
198511#691
198622#484
198714#637
198815#613
198916#595
199019#568
199115#667
199210#793
199311#759
19947#923
199512#709
19966#966
19978#873
19983#1,273
19993#1,283
20009#839
20017#915
20024#1,135
20034#1,107
20043#1,247
20053#1,241
20063#1,217
20073#1,203
20084#1,047
20094#1,045
20104#1,006
20122#1,098
20132#1,135
20151#162
20161#11
20171#31