Girls' name · peaked in 1896

Agnes name popularity since 1925

58,510 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Agnes. Half of them were born in 1936 or earlier, so the typical Agnes is about 90 years old in 2026. Agnes peaked in 1896 as the #38 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 58,510; Named Agnes, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1896; #38 for girls that year
Typical age: About 90; Median birth year 1936
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,016 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.7% girls; 58,333 girls · 177 boys
Most popular in: North Dakota; 3.32× its national share

Peak year is the year Agnes made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Agnes births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Agnes peaked earlier, in 1896.

Steepest fall: Between 1965 and 1970, Agnes's share of baby girls fell by 53%, from 1 in 6,840 to 1 in 14,600.
Fastest rise: Between 2012 and 2017, it became 1.7× more common, from 1 in 14,300 baby girls to 1 in 8,680.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Agnes's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Agnes.

Decade by decade

Babies named Agnes in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	16,575	73	–
1930s	18,032	79	#138
1940s	9,518	25	#230
1950s	5,602	0	#369
1960s	2,714	0	#602
1970s	913	0	#1,291
1980s	744	0	#1,710
1990s	626	0	#2,190
2000s	635	0	#2,788
2010s	1,638	0	#1,275
2020–25	1,336	0	#1,016

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

51.6% of babies named Agnes from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Agnes is most popular

The index compares Agnes's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Agnes.

State	Index	Babies
North Dakota	3.32×	578
Hawaii	2.59×	446
Pennsylvania	2.13×	5,961
South Dakota	1.78×	312
Maryland	1.77×	1,489

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Agnes's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Agnes.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Agnes (1896).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data