Given name & surname
Agnieszka
“pure”
Agnieszka is a feminine given name from Proto-Hellenic. It is used in Polish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Agnieszka goes back to Latin Agnes, meaning “pure.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In Polish use, Agnieszka shares an earlier linguistic root with Agnes. An origin associated with Agnes is Greek.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Agnieszka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 233
- 0 boys · 233 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,549 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Agnieszka’s family of names
In Polish usage, Agnieszka has a diminutive in Aga. Agnieszka shares a linguistic root with Agnes. In Polish usage, Agnieszka has a conventional equivalent in the French form Agnès.
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Around the world
Agnieszka has relatives in 8 languages.
14 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Agnescognate · English, German
- Inesequivalent
- Agniaequivalent
- Agneseequivalent
- Agnessaequivalent
- Agnesaequivalent
- Агнияequivalent
- Agnėequivalent
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People named Agnieszka
- Agnieszka RadwańskaPolish tennis playerborn 1989
- Agnieszka HollandPolish film director and screenwriterborn 1948
- Agnieszka OsieckaPolish poet and songwriter (1936–1997)
- Agnieszka GrochowskaPolish actressborn 1979
- Agnieszka WłodarczykPolish actress, singerborn 1980
- Agnieszka WagnerPolish actressborn 1970
- Agnieszka ChylińskaPolish singer-songwriterborn 1976
- Agnieszka KobusPolish rowerborn 1990
- Agnieszka Czopekswimmerborn 1964
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