Agatha (given name)
| Agatha |
An Orthodox icon of St. Agatha of Sicily, the saint responsible for the wide usage of the name Agatha. |
| Gender |
female |
| Language(s) |
Ancient Greek |
| Origin |
| Meaning |
"good" |
| Other names |
| See also |
Ag, Aggy, Aggi, Aggie |
Agatha ( /ˈæɡəθə/)[1] Agata, or Ágata is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Greek word αγαθος agathos, meaning "good." It was the name of Saint Agatha of Sicily, a third century Christian martyr. The name has been rarely used in English-speaking countries in recent years.[2] It was last ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States during the 1930s.[3]
Notable people with the name Agata include
- Agata Buzek (born 1976), a Polish actress
- Agata Błażowska (born 1978), a Polish ice dancer
- Ágata Cruz, a pseudonym of Luz Machado (1916-1999), a Venezuelan political activist, journalist and poet
- Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
- Agata della Pietà (fl. ca. 1800), an Italian composer, singer and teacher of music
- Agata Gotova, a child actress
- Agata Karczmarek, a Polish long jumper
- Agata Mróz-Olszewska (1982-2008), a Polish-Tatar volleyball player
- Agata Pietrzyk (born 1988), a Polish female freestyle wrestler
- Agata Piszcz, a Polish sprint canoer
- Agata Rosłońska (born 1983), a Polish ice dancer
- Agata Srokowska (born 1990), a Polish figure skater
- Agata Szymczewska (born 1985), a Polish violinist
- Agata Wróbel, a Polish weightlifter
- Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789-1831), a Polish composer
- Saint Agatha of Sicily, a Christian saint sometime spelled as Saint Agata
Name variants
- Agafia (Russian)
- Agasha (Russian)
- Agata or Ágata (Czech, Galician, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish)
- Agathe (Danish, French, German, Greek, Norwegian)
- Aggie (English)
- Ági (Hungarian)
- Agot (Norwegian)
- Ágota (Hungarian)
- Águeda (Galician, Portuguese, Spanish)
- Ganya (Russian)
- Gasha (Russian)
- Gashka (Russian)
- Agota (Lithuanian)
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