Agafiya

Agafiya ({{langx|ru|Ага́фия}}) is a Russian Christian female first name.Superanskaya, pp. 16 and 278 Its colloquial forms are Agafya ({{lang|ru|Ага́фья}}; which can also be the main form of a related name) and Ogafya ({{lang|ru|Ога́фья}}). Like its traditional English form Agatha, it is derived from the Greek word meaning good, kind, noble. {{cite book |last1=Hanks|first1= Patrick| last2=Hardcastle|first2=Kate |last3=Hodges| first3=Flavia| author-link= |date= 2006|title= Oxford Dictionary of First Names|url= |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=5|isbn=0-19-861060-2}}

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.