Agatha (given name)
Agatha also Agata, is a feminine given name derived from the Greek feminine name Ἀγάθη (Agáthē; alternative form: Ἀγαθή Agathḗ), which is a nominalized form of ἀγαθή (agathḗ), i.e. the feminine form of the adjective ἀγαθός (agathós) "good".[2][3][4]
An Orthodox icon of St. Agatha of Sicily, the saint responsible for the wide usage of the name Agatha | |
Pronunciation | /ˈæɡəθə/[1] |
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Gender | Female |
Language(s) | Ancient Greek |
Origin | |
Meaning | "good" |
Other names | |
See also | Ag, Aggy, Aggi, Aggie |
It was the name of St. Agatha of Sicily, a third-century Christian martyr. The name has been rarely used in English-speaking countries in recent years.[5] It was last ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States during the 1930s.[6]
Russian name
In Russian, the name "Ага́та" (Agata) was borrowed from the Western European languages, and derives from the same Ancient Greek root from which older names Agafya[7] and Agafa[8] also come. Its masculine version is Agat.[9] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,[10] which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.[11]
Its diminutives include Agatka (Ага́тка), Aga (А́га), and Gata (Га́та).[8]
People
Agatha
- Agatha of Sicily (died 251), Christian saint sometime spelled as Saint Agata
- Agatha, wife of Samuel of Bulgaria (born 10th century), Bulgarian Empress
- Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile (before 1030 – after 1070), Anglo-Saxon royalty
- Agatha of Lorraine (c.1120–1147), wife of Renaud III, Count of Burgundy
- Agatha Marie of Hanau (1599–1636), German countess
- Agatha Amata (born 1969), Nigeria television personality
- Agatha Bacovia (1895–1981), Romanian poet
- Agatha Barbara (1923–2002), only female President of Malta
- Ágatha Bednarczuk (born 1983), Brazilian beach volleyball player
- Agatha Chapman (1907–1963), British-Canadian economist
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976), British crime writer
- Agatha Deken (1741–1804), Dutch writer
- Agatha Dietschi (fl. 1547), German cross dresser
- Agatha Harrison (1885–1954), English industrial welfare reformer
- Agatha Kong (born 1988), Hong Kong singer
- Agatha Moreira (born 1992), Brazilian actress and model
- Agatha van der Mijn (1700–c.1780), Dutch flower painter
- Agatha Lovisa de la Myle (died 1787), Baltic-German and Latvian poet
- Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada (born 1960), Spanish noble and fashion designer
- Agatha Sangma (born 1980), member of the Parliament of India
- Agatha Streicher (1520 – 1581), German phycisian
- Agatha Welhouk (1637–1715), Dutch woman setting a legal precedent with regard to marriage
Agathe
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847–1907), Norwegian pianist and composer
- Agathe L. van Beverwijk (1907–1963), Dutch mycologist and botanist
- Agathe Bonitzer (born 1989), French actress
- Agathe Fontain (born 1951), Greenlandic politician
- Agathe Génois (born 1952), Canadian writer
- Agathe Habyarimana (born 1942), the widow of former Rwandan President
- Agathe de La Boulaye (born 1972), French actress
- Agathe de La Fontaine (born 1972), French actress
- Agathe Lasch (1879–1942), German philologist
- Agathe Max, French violinist
- Agathe Meunier (born 1993), French acrobatic gymnast
- Agathe N'Nindjem-Yolemp (born 1980), Cameroonian basketball player
- Agathe Ngani (born 1992), Cameroonian footballer
- Agathe Pembellot (1942–2016), Congolese judge
- Agathe Poschmann (born 1922), German actress
- Agathe de Rambaud (1764–1853), French royal nanny
- Agathe de Saint-Père (1657–1748), French-Canadian business entrepreneur and inventor
- Agathe de Saint Etienne de La Tour (1690–1765), Canadian landowner
- Agathe-Sophie Sasserno (1810–1860), French poet
- Agathe Snow (born 1976), New York based artist
- Agathe Martha Storch, Greenlandic politician
- Agathe von Trapp (1913–2010), eldest daughter of the Trapp Family Singers
- Agathe Turgis (1892–?), French fencer
- Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1953–1994), Rwandan Prime Minister 1993–1994
Agata
- Agata Balsamo (born 1970), Italian long-distance runner
- Agata Barańska (born 1993), Polish tennis player.
- Agata Błażowska (born 1978), Polish ice dancer
- Agata Buzek (born 1976), Polish actress
- Agata Ciabattoni, Italian mathematician
- Ágata Cruz, pseudonym of Luz Machado (1916–1999), Venezuelan political activist, journalist, and poet
- Agata Czaplicki (born 1983), Swiss swimmer
- Agata della Pietà (fl. c. 1800), Italian composer, singer, and teacher of music
- Agata Forkasiewicz (born 1994), Polish sprinter
- Agata Gotova (born 1971), Russian child actress
- Agata Karczmarek (1963–2016), Polish long jumper
- Agata Karczmarzewska-Pura (born 1978), Polish volleyball player
- Agata Korc (born 1986), Polish swimmer
- Agata Kornhauser-Duda (born 1972), wife of Andrzej Duda, president of Poland
- Agata Kryger (born 1997), Polish figure skater
- Agata Kulesza (born 1971), Polish actress
- Agata Materowicz (born 1963), Polish artist
- Agata Mróz-Olszewska (1982–2008), Polish volleyball player
- Agata Ozdoba (born 1988), Polish judoka
- Agata Passent (born 1973), Polish journalist and writer
- Agata Pietrzyk (born 1988), Polish freestyle wrestler
- Agata Piszcz, Polish sprint canoeist
- Agata Pyzik (born 1983), Polish journalist and cultural critic
- Agata Rosłońska (born 1983), Polish ice dancer
- Agata Sawicka (born 1985), Polish volleyball player
- Agata Smoktunowicz (born 1973), Polish mathematician
- Agata Suszka (born 1971), Polish biathlete
- Agata Szymczewska (born 1985), Polish violinist
- Agata Tarczyńska (born 1988), Polish footballer
- Agata Trzebuchowska (born 1992), Polish actress
- Agata Tuszyńska (born 1957), Polish writer, poet and journalist
- Agata Witkowska (born 1989), Polish volleyball player
- Agata Wróbel (born 1981), Polish weightlifter
- Agata Zubel (born 1978), Polish composer and singer
- Agata Zupin (born 1998), Slovenian hurdler
Fictional characters
- Agatha de Lacey, a minor character in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Agatha Clay, the heroine of the Girl Genius comic book series
- Agatha Crumm, the title character of a newspaper comic strip
- Agatha Flugelschmidt, a character in the live action/animated television series Noddy played by Jayne Eastwood
- Agatha Gregson or Aunt Agatha, recurring character in the Jeeves stories of British writer P. G. Wodehouse
- Agatha Hannigan, disturbed caregiver and central antagonist of Annie (musical)
- Agatha Harkness, Marvel Comics witch
- Agatha "Aggie" Prenderghast, the main antagonist of ParaNorman
- Agatha Raisin, amateur detective in a series of novels by M.C. Beaton
- Agatha Troy, Ngaio Marsh character, wife of Roderick Alleyn
- Agatha Trunchbull, the sadistic antagonist of Roald Dahl's book Matilda
- Agatha (Pokémon), a fictional character in the Pokémon franchise
- Agatha, from the 2014 American comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Aunt Agatha, one of the main characters in the PBS Kids series Noddy.
- Agatha of Woods Beyond, one of the main characters in the book series The School for Good and Evil.
Regional variants
- Agafia (Ukrainian)
- Agat(h)e (Danish, French,[9] Greek, Norwegian)
- Agata or Ágata (Galician, Portuguese, Italian,[9] Polish, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, foreign adaptation for Ukrainian)
- Agáta (Czech, Slovak)
- Ágota/Agota (Hungarian, Lithuanian)
- Agate (Latvian)
- Águeda (Galician, Portuguese, Spanish)
- Àgueda or Àgata (Catalan)
- Ukanesh, Ukiana (Chuvash)
- Ågot (Norwegian)[4]
- Agafya (Russian)[9]
See also
- Agathe Cléry, 2008 French movie
References
Notes
- Wells, John (26 March 2010). "Agatha and Helena". John Wells's phonetic blog. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- ἀγαθός. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
- Harper, Douglas. "Agatha". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- "Agata" (in Swedish). Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- Behind the Name
- Behind the Name
- Nikonov, p. 63
- Petrovsky, p. 38
- Superanskaya [1], p. 251
- Superanskaya [2], pp. 22 and 278
- Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Елена Душечкина. "Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов" (in Russian)
- Aagje and Aagtje at the Meertens Institute database of Dutch given names
Sources
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- Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (Dictionary of Russian First Names). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-17-002940-3
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