Agata
From the Greek for "good". Still one of those names you almost certainly know someone by, with roughly 184,000 women carrying it, though parents give it less each year now.
Agata Pronunciation
Agata is pronounced ah-GAH-tah (/aˈgata/).
What Agata means
Where Agata comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Agata comes from Greek, from agathos, meaning good. The Polish gloss keeps to that root: dobra, good. Agatha is the older variant, and Aga the diminutive people actually use.
The name reached Poland with a saint. Agatha of Sicily, a martyr of the third century, fixed it in the calendar, and the imieniny for Agata falls on the fifth of February. On that day some parishes still bless salt and bread, the sól świętej Agaty, which families keep at home against fire and storm.
A girl named Agata meets the word early, on a school register between Agnieszka and Alicja. She learns it means good before she can spell it. The meaning translates the Greek. It was never a verdict on character. Aga on the playground, Agata on the official form at the urząd, Agatha for a Polish family with an English-speaking cousin. Each is the same root: good, dobra.
When Agata celebrates name day
Agata appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 5 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Agata
1 in 122 women in Poland is named Agata. 184,306 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #74 among female names.
Agata's popularity over time
455 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #118 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #74 name among living women, even as it slips to #118 among newborns.
Where parents choose Agata
Agata is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 85% above the national average (556 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+78%) and Opole (+56%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Lesser Poland, 58% and 48% below average respectively.
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
+85%1 in 197 babies
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Pomeranian
+78%1 in 205 babies
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Opole
+56%1 in 233 babies
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Subcarpathian
−58%1 in 861 babies
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Lesser Poland
−48%1 in 703 babies
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Holy Cross
−34%1 in 554 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+85% 556 born1 in 197 babies+85%
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Pomeranian+78% 720 born1 in 205 babies+78%
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Opole+56% 198 born1 in 233 babies+56%
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Warmian-Masurian+36% 269 born1 in 267 babies+36%
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Silesian+30% 813 born1 in 280 babies+30%
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Greater Poland+25% 738 born1 in 292 babies+25%
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Podlaskie+7% 193 born1 in 341 babies+7%
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Lower Silesian−16% 364 born1 in 432 babies−16%
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Łódź−18% 285 born1 in 445 babies−18%
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Lubusz−20% 109 born1 in 456 babies−20%
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Masovian−23% 751 born1 in 472 babies−23%
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Lublin−25% 212 born1 in 484 babies−25%
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West Pomeranian−25% 175 born1 in 482 babies−25%
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Holy Cross−34% 100 born1 in 554 babies−34%
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Lesser Poland−48% 323 born1 in 703 babies−48%
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Subcarpathian−58% 140 born1 in 861 babies−58%
Agata as a middle name
Agata is a first name for 184,306 women in Poland and a middle name for another 81,382, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 35th, between Iwona (83,745) and Bożena (80,221).
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#33 Julia86,163
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#34 Iwona83,745
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#35 Agata81,382
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#36 Bożena80,221
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#37 Izabela79,799