Egypt
Egypt is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 173 births. Its best rank was 917th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1730.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2019289 births
- Best rank
- #917in 2019
- Since 1975
- 5,317people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,537 girls have been named Egypt in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 289 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 780 boys have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Egypt was the 917th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Egypt
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zaynabpeak 2016
- Blessingpeak 2019
- Italypeak 2021
- Amiliapeak 2023
- Zahrapeak 2024
- Amarahpeak 2019
- Asiyapeak 2024
- Razanpeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.