How rare is the name Agatha?

5,264 people in the United States have the first name Agatha, about 1 in 57,377. It ranks #3,771 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

AGATHA

#3,771

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,264
About
1 in 57,377
This common or more
83%
Who bears it

Of the 5,264 people named Agatha, 55% reported their origin as White, 24.1% as Black and 9.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Agatha peaked in 1918, when 218 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
218
In 2025*
120 ▼45%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,491 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Agatha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #651. The largest share of babies named Agatha, 37.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#823212
1890s#651468
1900s#667623
1910s#8031,654
1920s#1,0241,624
1930s#1,323884
1940s#1,840609
1950s#2,383508
1960s#3,342324
1970s#4,677246
1980s#4,682314
1990s#7,216235
2000s#6,672362
2010s#4,400716
2020s#3,171712
Before 19017.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2737.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4516%
Baby boom 1946–649.7%
Generation X 1965–804.4%
Millennials 1981–964.8%
Generation Z 1997–126%
2013 and later13.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Agatha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Agatha has been most common in North Dakota (5.4×), New York (3.6×), and Massachusetts (2×), and least common in North Carolina (0.36×).

3,874 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Agatha

1 other first name also has 5,264 people.

#3,771 Evelina · 5,264

Either side of Agatha

#3,768 Teena · 5,268#3,770 Mama · 5,267#3,771 Evelina · 5,264#3,773 Alayah · 5,262

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Agatha, most common first.

#6,462 Agata · 2,484#22,312 Agathe · 447

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