Given name & surname · also Norman
Agnew
“descendant of Gníomh”
Agnew is a surname from Norman, ultimately from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Agnew goes back to Irish Ó Gnímh, meaning “descendant of Gníomh.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Agnew comes from Norman, and ultimately from Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Agnew through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1912
- 7 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 5 in 1953. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,607 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.
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