Egypt
Egypt is given to both girls and boys: 187 girls and 40 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,213 among girls’ names and #3,049 among boys’, #2,036 among all names counting both); 5,546 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,500 Americans named Egypt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Egypt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Egypt?
#1,213 among girls’ names, 2025
Egypt rose from #1,219 in 2015 to #1,213 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.12 per 1,000.
366 babies in 2022, the peak
Egypt peaked in 2022, when 366 babies were given it (280 girls, #959 among girls’ names). The 227 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,213 | 40 | #3,049 |
| 2024 | 173 | #1,329 | 35 | #3,346 |
| 2023 | 230 | #1,075 | 61 | #2,296 |
| 2022 | 280 | #959 | 86 | #1,856 |
| 2021 | 284 | #937 | 62 | #2,256 |
| 2020 | 280 | #923 | 60 | #2,273 |
| 2019 | 289 | #917 | 72 | #2,024 |
| 2018 | 281 | #947 | 65 | #2,152 |
| 2017 | 270 | #973 | 64 | #2,137 |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,041 | 78 | #1,891 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 203 | #1,219 | 29 | #3,718 |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,347 | 44 | #2,720 |
| 2013 | 164 | #1,401 | 36 | #3,070 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,847 | 23 | #4,288 |
| 2011 | 115 | #1,772 | 13 | #6,336 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,997 | 5 | #12,802 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,879 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 120 | #1,809 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,103 | 5 | #12,889 |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,152 | 5 | #12,569 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,381 | 6 | #10,466 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,682 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,559 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,583 | 5 | #11,183 |
| 2001 | 81 | #2,062 | 8 | #7,743 |
| 2000 | 96 | #1,799 | 6 | #9,440 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,316 | 6 | #9,032 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,509 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,414 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,344 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,720 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,849 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,610 | 6 | #7,923 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,409 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,380 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,031 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,418 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,050 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,313 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,195 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,050 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,474 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Egypt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,546 Americans recorded as Egypt, 85% are girls and 15% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Egypt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Egypt, and how old are they?
5,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,546 Americans ever recorded as Egypt. The median Egypt alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,846 people named Egypt (2,476 women and girls, 370 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 255 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,780 |
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).
Where are babies named Egypt born?
The states with the most babies named Egypt are Texas, Florida and North Carolina, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,559 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 20 | #804 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 20 | #544 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 14 | #716 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 13 | #716 | 1.0× |
| New York | 12 | #1,183 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 11 | #672 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #979 | 0.7× |
| California | 8 | #2,330 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,043 | 1.2× |
Where Egypt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Egypt is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Egypt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Egypt
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 Egypt and names like it
- Compare Egypt and LaykenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEgypt peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Egypt since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Egypt.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Egypt alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.