Agnes
Agnes is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 233 births. Its best rank was 37th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2330.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19185,291 births
- Best rank
- #37in 1899
- Since 1880
- 159,270people given the name
The story in the numbers
159,270 girls have been named Agnes in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 5,291 births — 0.46% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 233 births in 2024, against 5,291 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 92 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 50 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Agnes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7,237 | |
| 1890s | 14,429 | |
| 1900s | 17,616 | |
| 1910s | 39,255 | |
| 1920s | 39,222 | |
| 1930s | 18,032 | |
| 1940s | 9,518 | |
| 1950s | 5,602 | |
| 1960s | 2,715 | |
| 1970s | 914 | |
| 1980s | 744 | |
| 1990s | 626 | |
| 2000s | 635 | |
| 2010s | 1,638 | |
| 2020s | 1,087 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Agnes was the 47th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Agnes
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florencepeak 1918
- Ednapeak 1918
- Madgepeak 1920
- Alphapeak 1916
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Verniepeak 1916
- Gertrudepeak 1917
- Maybellepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.