# Agathon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/agathon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | “good”, “-y: forming personal names” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Latin Agathon, from Ancient Greek Ἀγάθων (Agáthōn), from ᾰ̓γᾰθός (ăgăthós, “good”) + -ων (-ōn, “-y: forming personal names”).

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Агатон
- Latin: Agathon

## People named Agathon

- Agathon, Athenian tragic poet (c.448–c.400 BC)
- Agathon Jean François Fain, French historian (1778-1837)
- Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician (1826–1909)
- Heinrich Agathon Bernstein, German naturalist, zoologist and explorer (1828-1865)
- Agathon Rwasa, Burundian politician, leader of the Congrès National pour la Libération (CNL)
- Agathon, Egyptian monk
- Aat de Roos, Dutch field hockey player (1919–1992)
- Kasimir Leino, Finnish opinion journalist and writer (1866–1919)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.