Meaning and history
Latinized form of the Greek name Ἀγαθή (Agathe), derived from Greek ἀγαθός (agathos), meaning “good.” Saint Agatha was a 3rd-century martyr from Sicily who was tortured and killed after rejecting the advances of a Roman official, and she was widely revered in the Middle Ages, so her name was used throughout Christian Europe in various spellings. A famous modern bearer of the name was the mystery writer Agatha Christie (1890–1976).
20062006: 50 births, rank #3,264
2007: 47 births, rank #3,482
2008: 38 births, rank #4,089
2009: 36 births, rank #4,196
2010: 49 births, rank #3,306
20112011: 51 births, rank #3,222
2012: 44 births, rank #3,583
2013: 62 births, rank #2,769
2014: 71 births, rank #2,517
2015: 87 births, rank #2,169
20162016: 77 births, rank #2,412
2017: 95 births, rank #2,053
2018: 102 births, rank #1,937
2019: 78 births, rank #2,305
2020: 86 births, rank #2,115
20212021: 137 births, rank #1,532
2022: 116 births, rank #1,775
2023: 124 births, rank #1,669
2024: 129 births, rank #1,613
20252025: 120 births, rank #1,703
Agatha rose from #924 to #914 for girls between 1941 and 1945. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 218 births.