Entry № 213 · Greek origin

Agape Agape — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-GAH-peh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Divine love (1 Corinthians 13)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "divine love (1 corinthians 13)".

Agape is from the Greek ἀγάπη (Agápē — unconditional love, divine love, charity). Agape is one of the Greek feminine names — central to traditional Greek philosophical + Christian heritage. S.

Divine love (Greek). S.

The name in its native script.

ἀγάπη
Transliteration
Agápē
Pronunciation
/ əˈɡɑː.peɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Agape stands.

Agape does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Agapes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Agape
Greek divine love + Four Loves + 1 Corinthians 13:13 the greatest of these is agape + Agape Feast early Christian + Saint Agape of Thessalonica martyr + C. S. Lewis The Four Loves 1960.
Greek philosophy + Christian theology

Names connected to Agape.

The number behind Agape.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Agape reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.