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Egon

Boys' name

Awe, through Egon

Egon has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1927, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Egon, 2023

1 in 663,000

Egon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Egon: meaning, origin, and history

Awe, through Egon

Germanic languages

What Egon means

Egon belongs to the name family reached through Egon → Egon. Its meaning is “awe”.

Origin, language, and formation

Egon is used in Danish, Estonian, German, Hungarian and Swedish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Egon comes through German Egon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Egino and Egon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Egon is pronounced /eːɡɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 boys were recorded with the name Egon between 1913 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1927; its best national rank was #2,583 in 1935.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Egon?

Egon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Egon 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Egon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Egons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Egon was born before 1935 — so the typical Egon is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
67
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2010s — 19.6% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Egon 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (9)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,583
1935

Spellings of Egon

Egon is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 22.3% against Egon's 0.01%.

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 Egon is used

Across 1910–2025, Egon was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Egon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Egon around the world

Where Egon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1904–2024
    #4,366
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Egon 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
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Best rank ever
#2,583
1935
Peak year
1927
9 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Egon

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

EgorAegonDagonLogonDragonTeagonEragonKeagonMorgonDaegonAragonSargonDeagonAgonKeegonTegonDaigonTaigon

Sibling names for Egon

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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