Agatha — #1618 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Agatha

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,369 babies named Agatha between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Agatha currently holds the #1618 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 218 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Agatha performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,654 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Agatha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,100 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Agatha in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Agatha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,369 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.