Agat (given name)

For other uses, see Agat (disambiguation).

Agat (Russian: Ага́т) is a Russian male first name.[1] While "Agat" is simply a Russification of certain Western European names (all of which derive from the Greek word agathos, which means good, kind[1]), it was also one of the newly created names documented in the 1920s and 1930s, given after agate, a semi-precious stone.[2]

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  1. 1 2 Superanskaya [1], p. 24
  2. Superanskaya [2], pp. 22 and 34

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