Egon — boys' name
148 babies named Egon in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1927. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Egon was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Egon in 1927 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Egon
The Social Security Administration has registered 148 babies named Egon between 1913 and 2023, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Egon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 9 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Egon performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 29 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Egon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Egon in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Egon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 148 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Egon at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Egon popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1913
- Peak year (1927)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 111 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
148 total births across 111 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1927 with 9 births in a single year.
Egon by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 29 births that decade — 20% of Egon's all-time total
Egon decade highlights
- Peak decade 29 births
- Runner-up 28 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Egon's strongest decade
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Egon by state
Where Egon concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 3.4% |
5 of 148 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.