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I love Agape and I wish people would appreciate it more. My first language isn't English, so the English word "agape" doesn't bother me. It would definitely cause some pronunciation issues though, even where I live.

Wouldn't recommend it. I know the meaning of ah-gah-PAY since I went to Catholic school, required to learn about God's love, etc., but it could easily be mistaken for a-GAPE in print. Plus my brain initially corrected it to agave. So although the meaning is wonderful, the excess of pronunciation mishaps that would surely happen makes it not really worth it

not a good idea ...

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I know what it means and how you're supposed to pronounce it, but only because I looked it up. 99.98 percent of people you'd meet in everyday circumstances won't know, and on paper it just looks like "agape" two syllables, as in, someone with her mouth hung open.

I don't like it as a name. I just think of agape feast

I adore lots of Greek names and really appreciate the meaning and concept behind this one but I can’t get past how it looks. It looks like the word for the expression of mouth wide open. Maybe the spelling could be changed to Agapi, but that perhaps changes it too much? Aggie would be a natural nickname.

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I don’t know, people have acclimatised to Penelope, Persephone and Phoebe and others, maybe Agape can follow suit? It makes a lovely meaningful middle name though.

Wonderful meaning, but can we trust the public in general to know or find out the actual pronunciation? I bet the temptation to pronounce it like the English 'agape' as in 'his mouth was agape with amazement' or whatever, two syllables, rather than the three syllables of the Greek word. I don't think it's even worth thinking about a mn.