Last name: AGNES

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AGNES : This last name is indexed 114,832 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

AGNES : 1: English; French (Agnès); Hungarian (Ágnes): from a female personal name which is from Late Latin Agnes and this one from Greek Hagnē from hagnē ‘pure chaste’. Saint Agnes was a Christian virgin martyr one of those who suffered under the persecutions of Diocletian in 303 AD. Her name was associated by folk etymology with Latin agnus ‘lamb’ and in medieval art she is often depicted with a lamb (the lamb of God). See also English Annis.2: American shortened (and altered) form of rare Greek metronymics Agnidis or Agniadis both derived from the female personal name Hagnē (see 1 above) or of patronymics like Anagnostopoulos (compare Agnew 4).

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