Agnes
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning pure; chaste; from Greek hagnos.
Agnes by the numbers
In 2025, 79 babies in England and Wales were named Agnes. In the US, 196 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 5,291 babies in 1918, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
Names that come from Agnes
Forms of Agnes in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Ansonson of Agnes293 in the US (2017)
- Inezpure, chaste; Spanish form of Agnes86 in the US (2017)
- Nessaa form of Vanessa or Agnes; not pure17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Inessapure or holy; possibly from Agnes25 in the US (2017)
- Nestapure; a form of Nesta or Agnes5 in the US (2017)
- Nessiepure or holy; diminutive of Agnes3 in England and Wales (2025)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Agnes. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean purity
Like Agnes, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Agnes
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