Agnes is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Agnes is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,141 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,140 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 115,267 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Agnes. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Agnes is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Agnes for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Agnes is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Agnes is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #37 Agnes has never been more popular than back in 1899.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Agnes was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 226 babies were named Agnes in the USA in 2022, ranking it #989 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2008, when it was only ranked #2,667 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 61 girls were named Agnes.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Agnes is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Agnes and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Agnes, you can simply say:
Apple
Goat
Nut
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Agnes
Agnes
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
G
N
E
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
G
N
E
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Agnes sounds like this:
