Agness — girls' name

What the Data Says About Agness

The Social Security Administration has registered 747 babies named Agness between 1885 and 2014, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Agness currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Agness performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 231 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Agness shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Agness in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Agness 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 747 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.