girls:
107 births since 1992
#5609 (2nd percentile)
boys:
41 births since 2007
#4545 (1st percentile)
overall:
148 births since 1992
#7591 (2nd percentile)
The name Agape is the #7,591 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 148 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,609 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 107 births since 1992. For boys, it ranks #4,545 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 2007.
Agape first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (1992 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Agape is available in 18 out of the 32 years between 1992 and 2023 (15 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Agape has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Agape were girls.
For girls, Agape reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #933) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Agape ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 75.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Agape reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #914) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Agape".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Agape. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.6% confident that Agape is pronounced as uh-GAH-pay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-guh-pay, at 21.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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