Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Ágata
Ágata is a feminine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ágata comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Ágata developed from Agatha. In Portuguese usage, Ágata developed from Ἀγαθή.
Ágata’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Ágata developed from the Latin form Agatha. In Portuguese usage, Ágata has a conventional equivalent in the French form Agathe. In Portuguese usage, Ágata has a conventional equivalent in the English form Agatha.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ágata has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Ágata comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Ágata
Characters named Ágata: Nairobi ("Money Heist").
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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