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.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 6,054 of them was named Egypt, which outranked 94.8% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 27,941 of them was named Egypt, which outranked 84.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,122Zacharias66
- #2,122Zade66
- #2,122Zyler66
- #2,147Egypt65
- #2,147Aviel65
- #2,147Brennen65
- #2,147Cai65
- #2,167Aayush64
- #2,167Adriano64
- #2,167Alexavier64
Tied with 19 names at #2,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.