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Egbert

Boys' name

Edge (of a blade) + bright

Egbert has been given to 1,231 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Egbert, 2017

1 in 397,000

Egbert over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Egbert: meaning, origin, and history

Edge (of a blade) + bright

Old English

What Egbert means

Egbert means “edge (of a blade) + bright”, associated with ecg and beorht.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Old English Ecgberht, name of early English kings, from Old English ecg (“edge (of a blade)”) + beorht (“bright”) or Proto-Germanic *Agjōberhtaz.

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Origin, language, and formation

Egbert is used in English, Dutch and French. Its origins include Old English.

Egbert comes through Old English Ecgberht and Proto-Germanic *Agjōberhtaz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Egbert is pronounced /ɛɡ.bɛʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,231 boys were recorded with the name Egbert between 1880 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 47 in 1921; its best national rank was #469 in 1880.

How common is Egbert?

Egbert had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 397,000
9 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 206,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
275,497 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Egbert sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 275,497 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Egbert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Egberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Egbert was born before 1924 — so the typical Egbert is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (309).

Is Egbert rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (47)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#469
1880

Spellings of Egbert

Egbert is not the most common spelling — Robert is, with 84.3% against Egbert's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Egbert is used

Across 1910–2025, Egbert was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 477,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Egbert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Egbert by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#469
1880
Peak year
1921
47 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,231
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Egbert

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Egbert

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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