Agneta
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Agneta är en sidoform till → Agnes, bildad utifrån detta namns latinska böjningsformer, särskilt den sekundära genitivformen Agnetæ som ger nominativ Agneta
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anne:ta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agneta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 324(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 4.4K
- BJBenin≈1 in 4.7K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 324 (inferred from the name graph)
31,472 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Agneta är en sidoform till → Agnes, bildad utifrån detta namns latinska böjningsformer, särskilt den sekundära genitivformen Agnetæ som ger nominativ Agneta. Av de medeltida beläggen att döma tycks Agneta då ha haft en något förnämare prägel än Agnes. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 21 januari.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agneta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #97 | 31,472 | 1 in 324 | 31K | Agneta | 103 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Agneta | 10 |
| BJ Benin | #275 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Agneta | 5 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Agneta | 11 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Agneta | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,270 | 1 in 4.4K | 2.4K | Agneta | 15 |
| LT Lithuania | #687 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Agneta | 36 |
| LV Latvia | — | 228 | 1 in 8.3K | 228 | Agneta | 18 |
31,472 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the lt-vlkk-vardai 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)
Agneta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Agneta Hornb. 1629SESwedish countess and writer (1629-1672)
- Isabelle de Charrièreb. 1740CHnot in their usual nameDutch French-language writer and composer (1740-1805)
- Agneta Pleijelb. 1940SESwedish writer
- Agneta Ulfsäter-Troellb. 1941SESwedish writer
- Agneta Elers-Jarlemanb. 1948SESwedish film director
- Agnetha Fältskogb. 1950SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer (born 1950)
- Agneta Eckemyrb. 1950SESwedish actress and model (1950–2018)
- Agneta Anderssonb. 1961SESwedish canoeist
- Yvonne Rydingb. 1962SEnot in their usual nameSwedish TV presenter and model
- Agneta Sjödinb. 1967SESwedish television presenter and writer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31K | #136 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 18K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Agneta mean?
- Recorded meaning: Agneta är en sidoform till → Agnes, bildad utifrån detta namns latinska böjningsformer, särskilt den sekundära genitivformen Agnetæ som ger nominativ Agneta.
- How do you pronounce Agneta?
- A machine transcription gives /anne:ta/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Agneta a male or female name?
- Agneta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Agneta?
- In the etymology graph, Nancy, Ines and Agnes are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Agneta have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Agneta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agneta.
- Where is Agneta most common?
- Agneta is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 324 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Agneta?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 31,472 people named Agneta, about 1 in 324 residents.
- How common is Agneta compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Agneta is the 97th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agnetaThe 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, “Agneta” — the 97th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.