Agatha
From the Greek agathos, "good": a name that praises character over looks, calling a person good and noble. In this English form it stays rare in Poland, carried by only a few hundred women, and given only to girls.
Agatha Pronunciation
What Agatha means
Where Agatha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Agatha begins with a Greek word, agathos, meaning good. Saint Agatha of Sicily, martyred in the third century, gave the name its early weight, and her feast falls on the fifth of February, which Polish calendars still mark. In Poland the name usually appears as Agata, with Aga as the everyday short form a classmate or teacher might use.
The Greek root is plain and old. It praises character before looks, calling a person good and noble rather than merely fair. That sense, dobra and szlachetna, travels with the name into Polish, where Agata keeps the same footing.
Read a school register in Kraków and you may find one Agata near the top of the list, already an Aga by the second week of term. The name holds its meaning without straining for it. Good is the whole of it.
How many people are named Agatha
1 in 87042 women in Poland is named Agatha. 259 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1907 among female names.
Agatha's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1418 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2022.
Where Agatha is most popular
Agatha is most popular in Pomeranian, 1367% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Pomeranian2 girls born+1367%
Agatha as a middle name
Agatha is a first name for 259 women in Poland and a middle name for another 60, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 874th, between Adolfa (60) and Eileen (60).
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#872 Sofía61
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#873 Adolfa60
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#874 Agatha60
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#875 Eileen60
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#876 Hania60