Agafiya

Agafiya (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
 * 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.