Egan
Egan was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,067 among boys’ names; 1,268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Egan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Egan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Egan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Egan is “an unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “descendant of Aodhagán” (literally,) and “fire” (áed).
From Irish Ó hAodhagáin, literally, “descendant of Aodhagán”, from Old Irish Áedacán, from Áed + -acán, from áed (“fire”).
/ˈiːɡən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Egan?
#4,067 among boys’ names, 2025
Egan fell from #3,717 in 2015 to #4,067 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 15.1 to 15.2 per million.
49 babies in 2019, the peak
Egan peaked in 2019, when 49 boys were given it, #2,631 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,067 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,009 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,916 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,016 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,837 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,510 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,631 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,389 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,331 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,508 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,717 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,821 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,143 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,635 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,068 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,557 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,913 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,964 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,574 | 23.1 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,797 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,402 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,961 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 45 | #2,364 | 22.8 |
| 2002 | 40 | #2,473 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,630 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,333 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,877 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,216 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,376 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,135 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,877 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,367 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,790 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,972 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,860 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,830 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,918 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,335 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,094 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,989 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,133 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,606 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,681 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,857 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,698 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,307 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,808 | 9.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,738 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,988 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,800 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,278 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,596 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,094 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,962 | 3.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,829 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,737 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,158 | 2.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,525 | 4.4 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,517 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Egan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,268 Americans recorded as Egan, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Egan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Egan, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,268 Americans ever recorded as Egan. The median Egan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,164 people named Egan (94 women and girls, 1,070 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 194 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 554 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 393 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,769 babies since 1880, Egan is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 52 babies (50%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Egan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Egan and names like it
- Compare Egan and EoghanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEgan peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Egan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Egan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Egan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Egan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.