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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.