Agafiya () is a Russian Christian female first name.Superanskaya, pp. 16 and 278 Its colloquial forms are Agafya (; which can also be the main form of a related name) and Ogafya (). 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.Superanskaya, pp. 23 and 278
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 Footnotes
Sources А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005.
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