Entry № 230 · Greek origin

Agnes Agnes — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AG-nes /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Pure / lamb (Saint Agnes of Rome; Agnes Martin)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "pure / lamb (saint agnes of rome; agnes martin)".

Agnes is from the Greek hagnē ("pure, chaste"), conflated with the Latin agnus (lamb) — hence the iconography of Saint Agnes always shown with a lamb. Saint Agnes of Rome (c.

Subject of Keats's The Eve of St.

Pure / lamb.

The name in its native script.

Ἁγνή
Transliteration
Hagnḗ
Pronunciation
/ ˈæɡ.nəs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Agnes stands.

Agnes 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.

Agness before her.

Real people
Agnes Martin
Canadian-American abstract painter.
1912 – 2004
Agnès Varda
Belgian-French filmmaker.
1928 – 2019
In fiction
Agnes Wickfield
David Copperfield.
1850

Names connected to Agnes.

The number behind Agnes.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Agnes reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.