Agnes

A female given name: from a Greek word meaning “chaste.”.

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Agnes is a female given name, which derives from the Greek name Ἁγνὴ hagnē, meaning "pure" or "holy". The name passed to Italian as Agnese, to Portuguese as Inês, and to Spanish, as Inés.
It was the name of a popular Christian saint, Saint Agnes of Rome, a fact which encouraged the wide use of the name. Agnes was the third most popular name for women in the English speaking world for more than 400 years. Its medieval pronunciation was "Annis," and its usage and many of its forms coincided with the equally popular name Anna, related in medieval and Elizabethan times to 'Agnes', though Anne/Ann/Anna are derived from the Hebrew Hannah ('God favored me') rather than the Greek. It remained a widely used name throughout the 1960s in the United States. It was last ranked among the top 1,000 names for American girls during that decade. The peak of its popularity was between 1900 and 1920, when it was among the top 50 names for American girls. Agnes was the 16th most popular name for girls born in Poland in 2007, having risen as high as third place in Sweden and Poland in 2006. It was also ranked among the top 100 names for girls in Hungary in 2005. Neža, a Slovene short form, was ranked among the top 10 names for girls born in Slovenia in 2008. French forms Inès and Ines were both ranked among the top 10 names for girls born in Brussels, Belgium in 2008.

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Fem. proper name, mid-12c., from Old French Agnes, from Greek Hagne "pure, chaste," fem. of hagnos "holy, sacred" (of places); "chaste, pure; guiltless, morally upright" (of persons), from PIE *yag-no-, suffixed form of root *yag- "to worship, reverence" (see hagiology). St. Agnes, martyred 303 C.E., is patron saint of young girls, hence the folk connection of St. Agnes' Eve (Jan. 20-21) with love divinations. In Middle English, frequently written phonetically as Annis, Annys. In U.S., among the top 50 names for girls born between 1887 and 1919.

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Derived from Greek hagnos: chaste.

Aignéis, Agnesa, Agné, Inez, Agnessa, Agnija, Agnė, Agneza

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Agnes Moorehead	1900	American actress
2	Agnes Bruckner	1985	American actress
3	Agnes Obel	1980	Danish singer, composer and pianist
4	Agnes of Rome	0291	Christian martyr
5	Agnès Verdier-Molinié	1978	French essayist
6	Agnès Varda	1928	French photographer, artist, film director and screenwriter
7	Agnes Martin	1912	American artist
8	Agnes Macphail	1890	Schoolteacher
9	Agnes von Kurowsky	1892	Muse for Ernst Hemingway
10	Agnes Nixon	1922	American screenwriter
11	Agnès Michaux	1968	French writer and translator
12	Agnès Martin-Lugand	1979	French novelist
13	Agnès Sorel	1422	French artist model
14	Mademoiselle Agnès	1968	French actress
15	Agnès Saal	1957	French high-ranking civil servant in france
16	Agnes de Mille	1905	American dancer and choreographer
17	Agnes Kraus	1911	German actress
18	Agnes Carlsson	1988	Swedish singer
19	Agnes Gund	1938	Lifelong lover of the arts and tireless champion of philanthropy.
20	Agnes Sampson		Scottish midwife, executed as a witch
21	Agnes Chan	1955	Hong Kong-born singer and activist
22	Agnes Boulton	1893	Pulp fiction writer
23	Agnès Blanchot	1965	French actress
24	Ágnes Keleti	1921	Gymnast
25	Ágnes Kunhalmi	1982	Politician
26	Agnès Ledig	1973
27	Agnès Callamard		Human rights activist
28	Agnes Smedley	1892	American journalist and writer
29	Agnès b.	1941	French fashion designer
30	Agnes Newton Keith	1901	American novelist and memoirist
31	Agnes Husslein-Arco	1954	Austrian art historian
32	Agnès Jaoui	1964	French actress, film director, screenwriter and singer
33	Ágnes Heller	1929	Hungarian philosopher, teacher
34	Agnes Lum	1956	American actor, model and singer
35	Agnes Waterhouse	1502	Englishwoman executed for witchcraft
36	Agnes Ayres	1898	American actress
37	Ágnes Szávay	1988	Hungarian tennis player
38	Agnes Baden-Powell	1858	British scouting pioneer
39	Agnes Mariam de la Croix	1952	Melkite nun and activist
40	Agnes of Courtenay	1133	Queens consort of Jerusalem
41	Agnes Baltsa	1944	Greek mezzo-soprano
42	Agnes Milowka	1981	Australian technical diver
43	Agnes of Antioch	1153	Queen consort of Hungary (1154-1184)
44	Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk	1477	British noble
45	Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe	1836	Wife of Canadian Prime Minister
46	Flavia Agnes	1947	Indian activist and lawyer
47	Agnes Keyser	1869	British philanthropist
48	Agnes of Poitou	1025	Holy Roman Empress
49	Ágnes Pataki	1951	Hungarian modell, filmproducer
50	Agnes of Assisi	1197	Poor Clare abbess
51	Agnes Karll	1868
52	Agnes Bernauer	1410	Medieval German woman accused of witchcraft
53	Agnès Boury		French actress and film director
54	Agnes Fink	1919	1919-1994 German Swiss actress
55	Agnès Poirier	1975	French anglophile journalist
56	Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir	1954	Bishop of Iceland
57	Agnes Kittelsen	1980	Norwegian actress
58	Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray	1540	British countess
59	Agnès Tejada	1978	Spanish television presenter, announcer and journalist
60	Agnes Ozman	1870	American Pentecostal
61	Agnès Marquès i Pujolar	1979	Catalan journalist
62	Agnes Hedengård
63	Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy	1260	Regent
64	Agnes Penemulungu		Malawian politician
65	Agnes Denes	1931	American artist
66	Agnes Binagwaho		Minister of Health of Rwanda
67	Agnes of France	1171	Byzantine Empress
68	Maria Agnes	1980	Indonesian actress
69	Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon	1407	Duchess of Bourbon
70	Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon	1103	Daughter of Duke William IX of Aquitaine and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse.
71	Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Aquitaine	0995	Duchess of Aquitaine, countess of Anjou
72	Ágnes Bertalan	1968	Hungarian actress
73	Agnes Marshall	1855	English food writer
74	Agnes Strickland	1796	English writer
75	Agnes of Montepulciano	1268	Dominican nun, wonderworker and saint
76	Agnes Maclehose	1759	Lover of Robert Burns
77	Agnes Repplier	1855	American essayist
78	Agnes Dünneisen	1955	Swiss actress
79	Agnes Meyer Driscoll	1889	American cryptographer
80	Agnes of Babenberg	1111	High Duchess consort of Poland
81	Agnes Arber	1879	British botanist
82	Agnes Blannbekin	1250	Austrian Beguine and Christian mystic
83	Agnes Pockels	1862	German chemist
84	Agnes Duff, Countess Fife	1829	British noble
85	Agnès Soral	1960	French actress
86	Agnes Prest		English martyr
87	Ágnes Gereben	1947	Translator, historian, teacher
88	Agnes Sanford	1897	American writer
89	Agnes Krumwiede	1977	German pianist and politician
90	Agnes of the Palatinate	1201	Duchess consort of Bavaria
91	Agnes Salm-Salm	1844	Prussian princess
92	Agnes Mary Clerke	1842	British astronomer
93	Agnes Zawadzki	1994	American figure skater
94	Agnès Godard	1951	French cinematographer
95	Agnès Humbert	1894	French art historian
96	Agnes Hunt	1866	British nurse
97	Agnes Mary Mansour	1931	American nun forced to leave her religious order after 30 years due to her position on legal abortion
98	Agnès Bonfillon	1975	French journalist
99	Ágnes Balázs	1967	Hungarian actress
100	Agnès Giard	1969	French journalist
101	Agnès Obadia	1963	French actress and film director
102	Agnès Dhaussy	1967	French actress
103	Agnes Bernelle	1923	World War II Allied propagandist; singer
104	Agnes of Eltham	1498	English noblewoman
105	Agnès Abécassis	1972	French writer
106	Agnes Buen Garnås	1946	Norwegian singer
107	Agnès Souret	1902	French actress and model
108	Agnes E. Meyer	1887	American journalist
109	Agnes of Hesse	1527	German nobleman, by marriage, Princess of Saxony
110	Agnès Letestu	1971	French ballet dancer
111	Agnes Broun	1732	Mother of Robert Burns
112	Agnes of Brandenburg	1257	Danish queen consort
113	Agnes of Rochlitz	1152	Duchess consort of Merania
114	Agnes Booth	1843	American actress
115	Agnes Miegel	1879	German writer, poet, journalist
116	Agnes Devanadera	1950	Filipino politician
117	Agnes Dunbar	1340	Mistress to the King of Scotland
118	Agnes of Hohenstaufen	1176	Countess Palatine of the Rhine
119	Agnes Giberne	1845	British astronomer, author
120	Agnes Wickfield		Character of David Copperfield, a novel by Charles Dickens
121	Agnes Baker Pilgrim	1924	American activist
122	Agnes Sapper	1852	German writer
123	Agnes of Loon	1150	Duchess consort of Bavaria
124	Agnes Sligh Turnbull	1888	American writer
125	Agnes Miller Parker	1895	Engraver, illustrator
126	Agnes Joaquim	1854
127	Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux	1857	Anglo-French writer
128	Agnes Kant	1967	Dutch politician
129	Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll	1574	Scottish noblewoman
130	Agnes Jones	1832	Irish humanitarian
131	Agnes Varis	1930	Businesswoman and philanthropist
132	Agnes Lawrence Pelton	1881	American artist
133	Agnès Wuthrich	1975	Swiss journalist
134	Agnes of Austria, Queen of Hungary	1151	Hungarian queen consort
135	Agnes Günther	1863	German writer
136	Agnes of Bohemia, Duchess of Jawor	1305	(1305 – 1337)
137	Agnes Hammer	1970	German author
138	Agnes of Dampierre	1237	Lady suo jure of Bourbon
139	Agnes of Meissen	1300	Margravine of Meissen by birth, by marriage Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
140	Agnes of Poland	1137	Grand Princess of Kiev
141	Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon and Navarre	1072	Queen of Aragon and Navarre
142	Agnes Pihlava	1980	Polish singer
143	Agnes Mortimer, Countess of Pembroke	1317	English countess
144	Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Stendal	1276	German noblewoman
145	Agnès Maltais	1956	Canadian politician
146	Agnes Irwin	1841	Educator
147	Agnès Château		French actress
148	Ágnes Bukta	1993	Hungarian tennis player
149	Agnes of Aquitaine, Countess of Savoy	1052	Countess Of Savoy
150	Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt	1573	Abbess of Gernrode, Electress of Saxony, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
151	Agnes of Cleves	1422	Navarrese royal consort, Princess consort of Viana
152	Ágnes Konkoly	1987	Miss Universe Hungary 2012
153	Agnes Friesinger	1984	German female long track speed skater
154	Agnès Laroche	1965	French writer
155	Agnès Merlet	1959	French film director and screenwriter
156	Agnès Buzyn	1962	French physician, academic & civil servant
157	Ágnes Losonczi	1928
158	Agnès Callu	1969	Museum curator and historian
159	Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben	1551	Countess of Mansfeld and husband of Gebhard von Waldburg
160	Agnes of Beaujeu	1200	French noblewoman
161	Agnes Goodsir	1864	Australian portrait painter
162	Ágnes Geréb	1952	Hungarian physician
163	Agnes Owens	1926	British writer
164	Agnès Capri	1907	French actress and singer
165	Agnes Hewes	1874	American children's writer
166	Agnes Wold	1954	Bacteriologist
167	Szabados Ágnes
168	Agnes van Ardenne	1950	Dutch politician and diplomat
169	Agnes Tait	1894	American painter, lithographer, illustrator, and dancer
170	Agnes Pareiyo	1956	Maasai Kenya women's rights activist, politician and Founder and Director of the Tasaru Ntomonok Rescue Center for young girls
171	Agnes Morton	1872	English tennis player
172	Agnes O'Farrelly	1874	Irish Camogie executive
173	Agnes Knochenhauer	1989	Curler
174	Agnes Ellen Harris	1883	American home economics academic
175	Agnes Conway	1885	British archaeologist and historian
176	Agnes Fontoura	1928	Brazilian actress
177	Agnes of Solms-Laubach	1578	Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
178	Agnes von Zahn-Harnack	1884	German teacher and writer
179	Agnès Rosenstiehl	1941	French writer
180	Agnes Giebel	1921	German singer
181	Agnès Mellon	1958	Opera singer
182	Agnes Weston	1840	British philanthropist
183	Agnes of Jesus	1602	Roman Catholic nun
184	Agnes Hürland-Büning	1926	German politician
185	Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of León and Castile	1052	Queen consort of León
186	Agnes Fay Morgan	1884	American chemist
187	Agnès Lemarchand	1954	French engineer
188	Sugár Ágnes
189	Agnes of Merania	1215	Female human
190	Agnes Allen	1930	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
191	Agnes Mowinckel	1875	Norwegian actress
192	Agnes Haakonsdatter	1290	Illegitimate daughter of King Haakon V of Norway
193	Agnes Kafula	1955	Namibian politician
194	Agnes Slott-Møller	1862	Danish painter and sculptor
195	Ágnes Farkas	1973	Hungarian handball player
196	Agnes von der Vierbecke	1341
197	Agnes Jekyll	1861	British artist, writer and philanthropist
198	Agnes Block	1629	Dutch botanist and art collector
199	Agnès de La Barre de Nanteuil	1922
200	Agnes of Essex	1151	Countess of Oxford