Entry № 231 · Latin origin

Agnese Agnese — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NYEH-zeh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Pure (Italian Saint Agnes + Sant'Agnese in Agone Rome)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "pure (italian saint agnes + sant'agnese in agone rome)".

Agnese is from the Italian Agnese — from the Greek Hagne (pure, holy) — Italian rendition of Agnes. Saint Agnes of Rome (c. 291-304 CE) was a early Christian virgin martyr — patron saint of young girls, chastity, gardeners, engaged couples, and rape survivors — one of the seven women commemorated by name in the Roman Canon of the Mass. Constantinian basilica) are Catholic pilgrimage sites.

Pure / holy (Italian-Greek).

The name in its native script.

Agnese
Transliteration
Agnese
Pronunciation
/ ɑːˈnjɛ.zɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Agnese stands.

Agnese 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.

Agneses before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Agnese of Rome
early Christian virgin martyr.

Names connected to Agnese.

The number behind Agnese.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Agnese reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.