Agee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: French Huguenot surname, perhaps a form of Ajean, from French à Jean ‘of John’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈeɪˈdʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Agee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 31K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K
- CACanada≈1 in 52K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 361 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
10,857 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French Huguenot surname, perhaps a form of Ajean, from French à Jean ‘of John’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agee 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,857 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Agee | 361 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Agee | 38 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Agee | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Agee | 21 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Agee | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | #932 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Agee | 1 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Agee | 3 |
10,857 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
Agee is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Uncertain; possibly 'fugitive' or related to a root meaning 'to flee'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, James, US writer
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)
- James Ageeb. 1909USAmerican author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)
- Philip Ageeb. 1935USformer CIA agent; author; expatriate American (1935-2008)
- William C. Ageeb. 1936American curator
- Joel Ageeb. 1940USAmerican writer and translator
- Tommie Ageeb. 1942USAmerican baseball player (1942–2001)
- G. Steven Ageeb. 1952USUnited States Circuit Judge and former Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
- Chris Ageeb. 1956USAmerican poet
- Jon Ageeb. 1960USAmerican creator
- Steve Ageeb. 1969USAmerican actor and writer
- Arthur Ageeb. 1972USAmerican basketball player
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,358 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 Agee mean, and where does it come from?
- French Huguenot surname, perhaps a form of Ajean, from French à Jean ‘of John’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Agee?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈeɪˈdʒi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Agee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Agee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled agee.
- How common is the name Agee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,857 people named Agee in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Agee compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Agee is the 932nd most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ageeThe 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, “Agee” — the 932nd most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.