Given name & surname
Agni
“fire”
Agni is a masculine given name from Sanskrit (ultimately Proto-Indo-European), meaning “fire.” It is used in Indonesian.
Original Sanskritअग्नि
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Agni comes from Sanskrit, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Indonesian usage, Agni developed from अग्नि.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Agni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #8,930 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,930 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 107 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.
Agni’s family of names
In Indonesian usage, Agni developed from अग्नि. In Icelandic usage, Agni has a conventional equivalent in the Norwegian form Agne. In Kannada usage, Agni is a transliteration of ಅಗ್ನಿ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Agni
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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