Agafiya

Agafiya () is a Russian Christian female first name. 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.

• 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.

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• А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005.