Egypt
#1,211 for girls in 2025, 187 births · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to girls 85.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 289 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,726since 1975
Egypt over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,211 | 187 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #1,326 | 173 | #3,335 | 35 |
| 2023 | #1,075 | 230 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #959 | 280 | #1,852 | 86 |
| 2021 | #934 | 284 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | #923 | 280 | #2,264 | 60 |
| 2019 | #916 | 289 | #2,020 | 72 |
| 2018 | #946 | 281 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | #972 | 270 | #2,130 | 64 |
| 2016 | #1,039 | 254 | #1,890 | 78 |
| 2015 | #1,219 | 203 | #3,684 | 29 |
| 2014 | #1,345 | 174 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | #1,399 | 164 | #3,060 | 36 |
| 2012 | #1,846 | 109 | #4,251 | 23 |
| 2011 | #1,772 | 115 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #1,992 | 100 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #1,876 | 112 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,808 | 120 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,101 | 96 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #2,149 | 90 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #1,378 | 156 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #2,679 | 61 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,556 | 63 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,582 | 60 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #2,064 | 81 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #1,801 | 96 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,848 | 42 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,402 | 30 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | — | |
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| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Egypt! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Egypt is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#235 · 1 in 666
- New York#716 · 1 in 3,803
- Maryland#744 · 1 in 3,920
- Virginia#814 · 1 in 4,535
- Georgia#868 · 1 in 4,655
Best ever in a state: #76 in District of Columbia, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #235 | 5 | 1 in 666 |
| New York | #716 | 24 | 1 in 3,803 |
| Maryland | #744 | 6 | 1 in 3,920 |
| Virginia | #814 | 8 | 1 in 4,535 |
| Georgia | #868 | 10 | 1 in 4,655 |
| Pennsylvania | #920 | 9 | 1 in 5,786 |
| North Carolina | #932 | 8 | 1 in 5,538 |
| Illinois | #1,063 | 9 | 1 in 6,439 |
| New Jersey | #1,150 | 5 | 1 in 7,299 |
| Florida | #1,213 | 10 | 1 in 8,116 |
| Ohio | #1,257 | 6 | 1 in 8,766 |
| California | #1,534 | 17 | 1 in 12,069 |
| Texas | #2,132 | 9 | 1 in 17,886 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Egypt
- 115 spots since 2024 (#1,326 → #1,211)
- 288 spots since 2020 (#923 → #1,211)
- 8 spots since 2015 (#1,219 → #1,211)
- Biggest jump: 67 spots in 2017 (#1,039 → #972)
- Biggest drop: 116 spots in 2023 (#959 → #1,075)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2019 at #916 (289 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2017–2022
- Highest: 1 in 5,773 girls born in 2020 were named Egypt (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,595 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #916 in 2019, was only 1 in 5,807 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.5% of all girls named Egypt (1,959) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 21 | #9,010 (1979) | #9,370 |
| 1980s | 52 | #3,402 (1989) | #3,709 |
| 1990s | 325 | #2,307 (1999) | #3,734 |
| 2000s | 935 | #1,378 (2005) | #2,099 |
| 2010s | 1,959 | #916 (2019) | #1,345 |
| 2020s | 1,434 | #923 (2020) | #1,071 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Egypt in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 10,700 of them was named Egypt, which outranked 92.7% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 52,544 of them was named Egypt, which outranked 78.3% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,998Wisdom37
- #2,998Yuvan37
- #2,998Zakari37
- #3,060Egypt36
- #3,060Abimael36
- #3,060Adon36
- #3,060Ahron36
- #3,122Abdurrahman35
- #3,122Abhay35
- #3,122Advait35
Tied with 61 names at #3,060; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.