Entry № 211 · Russian origin

Agafya Agafya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-GAH-fyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"Good (rare Russian Orthodox heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "good (rare russian orthodox heritage)".

Agafya is the Russian form of Agatha — from the Greek agathē (good). Princess Agafya — Russian Orthodox heritage naming.

and modern wilderness survival.

Good (Russian Agatha).

The name in its native script.

Агафья
Transliteration
Agafya
Pronunciation
/ əˈɡɑː.fjə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Agafya stands.

Agafya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Agafyas before her.

Real people
Agafya Lykova
Russian Old Believer Taiga hermit.
born 1944
In fiction
Agafya Tikhonovna
Gogol's iconic Marriage (1842).
1842

Names connected to Agafya.

The number behind Agafya.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Agafya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.