Name meaning & stats
Agnes
Agnes means “pure” (Ancient Greek origin). 23,751 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
“pure”
Ancient GreekWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
23,751 US babies were named Agnes between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Agnes (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)