Agafiya (Russian: Ага́фия) is a Russian Christian female first name. Its colloquial forms are Agafya (Ага́фья; which can also be the main form of a related name) and Ogafya (Ога́фья). Like its traditional English form Agatha, it is derived from the Greek word meaning good, kind, noble.
Agafa can also be a variant of the name Agafiya.
- People with the first name
- Agafia of Rus (between 1190 and 1195 – after 2 June 1248), Princess of Masovia
- Agafya (Agafiya) Grushetskaya (1663–1681), Tsaritsa of Russia, wife of Feodor III
- Agafia Lykova (1944- ), a Russian Old Believer, part of the Lykov family, who has lived alone in the taiga for most of her life.
References
Notes
- ^ Superanskaya, pp. 16 and 278
- Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
- Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 278
Sources
- А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5
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