Agag
surname · Latin script
Meaning: In biblical theology, Agag represents the persistent enemy of Israel and the object of the 'herem' (total destruction) command; his survival is treated as a failure of obedience by Saul (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aɣaɡ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Agag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 95K
- SYSyria≈1 in 97Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Agag
- Spanish:/aɣaɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)In biblical theology, Agag represents the persistent enemy of Israel and the object of the 'herem' (total destruction) command; his survival is treated as a failure of obedience by Saul.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Agag is found
(measured from records)Agag counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Agag | 36 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Agag | 13 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 92K | listed | Agag | 6 |
| SY Syria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Agag | 8 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Agag | 17 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 141 | Agag | 84 |
| LY Libya | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Agag | 7 |
| RE Réunion | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Agag | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dz-kaggle-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Agag is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Uncertain; possibly 'high' or 'violent' (related to Akkadian 'agāgu', meaning 'to be angry' or 'furious').
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Agag represents the archetypal enemy of God's people; his survival (spared by Saul) symbolizes incomplete obedience to God, while his execution by Samuel represents divine justice and zeal.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, A Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king, possibly a dynastic name of the kings of Amalek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Violent, warlike, or flame
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Amelekite king
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alejandro Agagb. 1970ESbusinessman
- Fatiha Agag-Boudjahlatb. 1979FRfeminist activist and French author
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Agag mean, and where does it come from?
- In biblical theology, Agag represents the persistent enemy of Israel and the object of the 'herem' (total destruction) command; his survival is treated as a failure of obedience by Saul. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Agag?
- In Spanish /aɣaɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Agag?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Agag in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agag. After it come Philippines, Algeria, Syria and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Agag?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Agag in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Agag?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agagThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Agag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.