Agatha

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Agatha: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Agatha: Recorded since 1965, with a gap of 28 years, its highest recorded position is #380, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#380highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Agatha's record

Absent from every published list for 28 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1646
1997	#1450
1998	#1697
1999	#1261
2000	#930
2001	#1305
2002	#1372
2003	#1383
2004	#1106
2005	#971
2006	#976
2007	#1073
2008	#734
2009	#763
2010	#878
2011	#789
2012	#975
2013	#750
2014	#750
2015	#666
2016	#727
2017	#673
2018	#815
2019	#584
2020	#749
2021	#884
2022	#839
2023	#865
2024	#837

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 13 of the 61 years from 1965 to 2025.

In 2024: #631 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #837 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1965–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #385 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1965–2025
Highest recorded position: #380 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1965–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Agatha appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,048 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1965.

Agatha across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Agatha's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#385 (1965)	#380 (1966)	#885 (2025)	13 of 61	45 (1965–2025)	5 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#1646 (1996)	#584 (2019)	#837 (2024)	29 of 29	1,048 (1996–2024)	68 (2019)

Agatha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Agatha in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	47	4 of 10	12
2000s	266	10 of 10	27
2010sbusiest	519	10 of 10	52
2020s	216	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 52 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Agatha appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #380 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Agatha's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#837	44	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#839	42	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#884	40	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#749	49	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#584	68	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#815	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#673	61	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#727	55	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#666	61	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#750	52	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#975	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#789	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#878	40	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#763	47	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#734	48	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1073	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#976	29	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#971	27	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1372	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1305	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#930	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1646	10	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1965 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #380, first reached in 1966.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 28 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 31 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Agastya · #329, 19y
Agata · #166, 56y
Agathe · #270, 45y
Åge · #45, 57y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elysia · #380, 29y
Estella · #380, 30y
Michaella · #380, 30y
Rosina · #380, 33y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Adrianne · #380, 18y
Estella · #380, 30y
Lenora · #380, 14y
Rosina · #380, 33y

Agatha was ranked #380 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Agatha and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Agatha without appearing here.

Agatha moved ahead of

Pauline Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1383 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1106 and #2802.
Janice Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1646 and #1364 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1450 and #2738.
Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1305 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1372 and #2301.
Debra Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1697 and #1392 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1261 and #2189.

Moved ahead of Agatha

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #789 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #975 and #284.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1372 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #799.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #584 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #749 and #460.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #930 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1305 and #1107.

Moved the opposite way to Agatha

Amelia Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 while Amelia went from #325 to #12.
Annie Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 while Annie went from #131 to #33.
Aoife Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 while Aoife went from #175 to #34.
Clodagh Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 while Clodagh went from #209 to #47.

Moved the same way as Agatha

Aisling Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 and Aisling from #121 to #180.
Alison Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 and Alison from #117 to #213.
Amanda Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 and Amanda from #129 to #608.
Andrea Compare
Between 1965 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Agatha went from #385 to #885 and Andrea from #215 to #304.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #380 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Agatha

Agatha at a glance

What stands out in Agatha's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Agatha across 2 official records

Agatha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Agatha appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Agatha moved ahead of

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Agatha at a glance

What stands out in Agatha's record

Agatha across 2 official records

Agatha by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Agatha appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Agatha

Agatha and the names beside it

Agatha moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Agatha

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