Agueda
Agueda is a name with multiple cultural origins: Spanish, Portuguese.
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Agueda
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Agueda is a name with multiple cultural origins: Spanish, Portuguese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
- Portuguese
The Story of Agueda
Agueda first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1911, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1980: 11 births, good for #5,912 nationwide. About 23% of every Agueda on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Agueda last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 245 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Agueda
Agueda is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1911 and has accumulated 245 births in the dataset. Agueda's peak popularity came in 1980 when it ranked #5,912. Use the chart and map above to compare Agueda's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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