Meaning & origin
What it means
Agha goes back to Turkish ağa, meaning “ruler, leader.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Agha as a surname developed from Ağa.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Agha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 344 as a first name in 2020; 1,232 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Agha’s family of names
In English usage, Agha as a surname developed from the Turkish form Ağa. Agha has a related form in Aga.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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