Agnieszka — girls' name
233 babies named Agnieszka in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
51% of everyone ever named Agnieszka was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Agnieszka in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Agnieszka
The Social Security Administration has registered 233 babies named Agnieszka between 1979 and 2020, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Agnieszka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 23 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Agnieszka performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Agnieszka shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 77 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Agnieszka in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Agnieszka 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 233 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.
Agnieszka at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Agnieszka popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1979
- Peak year (1990)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
233 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 23 births in a single year.
Agnieszka by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 118 births that decade — 51% of Agnieszka's all-time total
Agnieszka decade highlights
- Peak decade 118 births
- Runner-up 77 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Agnieszka's strongest decade
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Agnieszka by state
Where Agnieszka concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
Top 5 states
- Illinois 33.0% of nationwide
- New York 4.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 33.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1979–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.