Egon
Egon was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 148 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Egon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Egon mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Egon is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “awe” (*agi) and “sharp point” (ekka).
Variant of Egino, diminutive of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Egin-, from *agi (“awe”), later merged with Old High German ekka (“sharp point”) (from *aggju). Popular during the first half of the 20th century.
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Egon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,745, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1927, the peak
Egon peaked in 1927, when 9 boys were given it, #2,974 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #12,745 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,098 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,153 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,963 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,331 | 4.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,931 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,013 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,087 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,218 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,227 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 6 | #3,614 | 2.9 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,583 | 8.6 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,482 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,929 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,697 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,129 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,974 | 8.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,387 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,242 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,850 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,348 | 4.9 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,991 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,727 | 10.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,945 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Egon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Egon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Egon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Egon, and how old are they?
An estimated 65 Americans named Egon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 461 people named Egon (0 women and girls, 461 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 59 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,084 babies since 1880, Egon is the fourth most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 33 babies recorded by SSA was a Egon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Egon and names like it
- Compare Egon and EganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEgon peaked in 1927.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Egon since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Egon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Egon.
- Names starting with EMost given first.