Agatha and Agnes

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What are your thoughts on Agatha and Agnes. Maybe Aggie as a nn for either

I like the name Agatha but hate aggy and it would 99% of the time revert to that which doesn't have a positive meaning.

I do like Agnes but I'm not anyone other than a super cool girl could carry it off.

Prefer Agnes - it’s lovely.

Love them both with the preference for Agatha. Was my number 1 pick but DH didn’t like which has caused me nearly 20 years of wishing I could have had my way. Love the nickname Aggie also (although culturally for us it would morph to Ags pretty quickly once high school hit.... as that’s what we tend to do to names here).

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I like both. Agnes is my favourite though. I wouldn’t shorten either.

I love Agnes, I think it’s a beautiful name. I hate Agatha, I find it really ugly. And I really dislike Aggie for the same reason. I quite like Agathe though, which is the French (pronounced A - gat) which you could spell Agate, which is then the stone, not the saint’s name, but easier for English speakers to pronounce right!

I like Agatha but love Agnes - it was on the list for my 6-week old daughter (we ended up going with an even more marmite and equally "harsh-sounding" name that is probably hated on MN 😆). I don't mind Aggie but I'd have probably tried to stick with the full name had we gone with it.

I don't really understand the current trend of all girls names having to sound soft and pretty! It's led to an over abundance of princess names and L-heavy names that blend into each other. I think an Agatha or Agnes would be refreshing at a nursery these days!

I really like both of them.

Annis is a very pretty corruption of Agnes if you want something a little softer.

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I was about to say this! Jilly Cooper shortened Agatha to Taggie, which is lovely I think.

I love the french pronunciation of Agnes which is like Annyess

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I love the french pronunciation of Agnes which is like Annyess

Much nicer.

I’m not a fan. My partner did suggest Agatha when our daughter was born so he likes it. I find them a bit heavy/clunky. I do think Aggie is sweet though

Love both and Aggie!

They both have quite a harsh sound to me.

Love them both

Loathe Agatha. But Agnes is fine. Prefer French pronunciation.

I want to like them, but can't quite.

I met a baby Agnes last year, though, and it was a cute name on her.

I also met a French Agathe once, and it sounds so much cooler! Or Agata (Italian??)

There is a time when I would've hated both of these but now I think they're so unusual that they have no negative connotations and I like them both. I came on here to suggest the French pronunciations, but that might sound a bit pretentious, I suppose. I had an Aunt Aggie, who was lovely, and I found out recently that her name was Charlotte Agnes, but she chose to be known as Aggie! (I would've gone for Lottie:))

Dreadful sorry! Really frumpy, matronly names

I think they sound nice if you’re Scandinavian (also like agnetha) but otherwise no

Awful ugly names. Aggie as a nn is terrible.

Not a fan of either but prefer Agatha to Agnes, I think the Agn makes it sound harsher

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