girls:
159k births since 1880
#248 (96th percentile)
boys:
465 births since 1887
#4121 (10th percentile)
overall:
159.5k births since 1880
#476 (94th percentile)
The name Agnes is the #476 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 159,502 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #248 (95.7% percentile) for all time with 159,037 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,121 (10.1% percentile) for all time with 465 births since 1887.
Agnes has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1887 for boys).
The name Agnes has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Agnes reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 92.2% percentile (ranked #47) with 4,401 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 6,564 births per million (ranked 89.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Agnes ranks #723 for girls (23.7% percentile) with 131 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Agnes reached its peak popularity in 1907, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #243) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 82 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1949.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Agnes".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Agnes. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Agnes is pronounced as AG-nuhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AG-nihs, at 38.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 G N AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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