Agatha
#1,703 for girls in 2025, 120 births
- Peak · girls
- 1891 · 46 births
- Debut · girls
- 16 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,491since 1880
Agatha over time
Rank among girls' names. Agatha has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,703 | 120 |
| 2024 | #1,613 | 129 |
| 2023 | #1,669 | 124 |
| 2022 | #1,775 | 116 |
| 2021 | #1,532 | 137 |
| 2020 | #2,115 | 86 |
| 2019 | #2,305 | 78 |
| 2018 | #1,937 | 102 |
| 2017 | #2,053 | 95 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 77 |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 87 |
| 2014 | #2,517 | 71 |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #3,222 | 51 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 |
| 2008 | #4,089 | 38 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 |
| 2006 | #3,264 | 50 |
| 2005 | #3,009 | 53 |
| 2004 | #5,208 | 24 |
| 2003 | #3,655 | 38 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 |
| 1999 | #4,576 | 24 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1983 | #2,659 | 33 |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 |
| 1980 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1979 | #2,671 | 33 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 |
| 1975 | #3,259 | 21 |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 |
| 1969 | #2,208 | 33 |
| 1968 | #2,360 | 27 |
| 1967 | #2,327 | 27 |
| 1966 | #2,407 | 25 |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 |
| 1964 | #1,781 | 43 |
| 1963 | #2,172 | 30 |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 |
| 1961 | #1,742 | 43 |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 |
| 1959 | #1,794 | 38 |
| 1958 | #1,448 | 54 |
| 1957 | #1,588 | 46 |
| 1956 | #1,760 | 36 |
| 1955 | #1,691 | 37 |
| 1954 | #1,409 | 51 |
| 1953 | #1,424 | 47 |
| 1952 | #1,225 | 60 |
| 1951 | #1,090 | 73 |
| 1950 | #1,135 | 66 |
| 1949 | #1,189 | 58 |
| 1948 | #1,313 | 49 |
| 1947 | #1,204 | 56 |
| 1946 | #1,023 | 68 |
| 1945 | #914 | 68 |
| 1944 | #1,140 | 47 |
| 1943 | #1,027 | 60 |
| 1942 | #1,024 | 58 |
| 1941 | #924 | 63 |
| 1940 | #780 | 82 |
| 1939 | #824 | 70 |
| 1938 | #786 | 80 |
| 1937 | #717 | 90 |
| 1936 | #768 | 77 |
| 1935 | #646 | 102 |
| 1934 | #774 | 75 |
| 1933 | #659 | 99 |
| 1932 | #698 | 94 |
| 1931 | #688 | 94 |
| 1930 | #675 | 103 |
| 1929 | #625 | 121 |
| 1928 | #604 | 135 |
| 1927 | #618 | 133 |
| 1926 | #578 | 151 |
| 1925 | #556 | 168 |
| 1924 | #540 | 180 |
| 1923 | #574 | 156 |
| 1922 | #509 | 187 |
| 1921 | #519 | 187 |
| 1920 | #473 | 206 |
| 1919 | #472 | 199 |
| 1918 | #452 | 218 |
| 1917 | #434 | 217 |
| 1916 | #431 | 213 |
| 1915 | #431 | 199 |
| 1914 | #403 | 172 |
| 1913 | #392 | 153 |
| 1912 | #427 | 121 |
| 1911 | #446 | 83 |
| 1910 | #449 | 79 |
| 1909 | #435 | 72 |
| 1908 | #456 | 62 |
| 1907 | #444 | 65 |
| 1906 | #403 | 72 |
| 1905 | #420 | 66 |
| 1904 | #450 | 52 |
| 1903 | #396 | 64 |
| 1902 | #434 | 51 |
| 1901 | #404 | 54 |
| 1900 | #417 | 65 |
| 1899 | #381 | 58 |
| 1898 | #411 | 56 |
| 1897 | #414 | 50 |
| 1896 | #403 | 50 |
| 1895 | #411 | 47 |
| 1894 | #429 | 42 |
| 1893 | #436 | 38 |
| 1892 | #428 | 39 |
| 1891 | #365 | 46 |
| 1890 | #384 | 42 |
| 1889 | #421 | 33 |
| 1888 | #431 | 33 |
| 1887 | #446 | 25 |
| 1886 | #451 | 23 |
| 1885 | #484 | 19 |
| 1884 | #479 | 18 |
| 1883 | #517 | 14 |
| 1882 | #389 | 21 |
| 1881 | #539 | 10 |
| 1880 | #421 | 16 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Agatha was already there! It came in at #421, and was given to 16 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Agatha is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,702 · 1 in 20,343
Best ever in a state: #135 in South Dakota, 1914.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,702 | 6 | 1 in 20,343 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Agatha
- 90 spots since 2024 (#1,613 → #1,703)
- 412 spots since 2020 (#2,115 → #1,703)
- 466 spots since 2015 (#2,169 → #1,703)
- Biggest jump: 226 spots in 1945 (#1,140 → #914)
- Biggest drop: 144 spots in 1941 (#780 → #924)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1891 at #365 (46 births)
- Births halved by 1970, 79 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 63 yrs · run 1880–1941
- Highest: 1 in 4,018 girls born in 1899 were named Agatha (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,394 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #365 in 1891, was only 1 in 4,032 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.4% of all girls named Agatha (1,654) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 212 | #389 (1882) | #458 |
| 1890s | 468 | #365 (1891) | #406 |
| 1900s | 623 | #396 (1903) | #426 |
| 1910s | 1,654 | #392 (1913) | #434 |
| 1920s | 1,624 | #473 (1920) | #560 |
| 1930s | 884 | #646 (1935) | #724 |
| 1940s | 609 | #780 (1940) | #1,054 |
| 1950s | 508 | #1,090 (1951) | #1,456 |
| 1960s | 324 | #1,742 (1961) | #2,120 |
| 1970s | 246 | #2,455 (1973) | #3,021 |
| 1980s | 314 | #2,050 (1982) | #3,005 |
| 1990s | 235 | #3,585 (1993) | #4,606 |
| 2000s | 362 | #3,009 (2005) | #4,097 |
| 2010s | 716 | #1,937 (2018) | #2,627 |
| 2020s | 712 | #1,532 (2021) | #1,735 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Agatha in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 65,467 of them was named Agatha, which outranked 76.2% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,523Treva30
- #3,523Zaneta30
- #3,523Zoila30
- #3,623Agatha29
- #3,623Adelaida29
- #3,623Aishah29
- #3,623Alida29
- #3,714Amberley28
- #3,714Aneisha28
- #3,714Angella28
Tied with 90 names at #3,623; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.