girls:
49 births since 1984
#5667 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1915
#3439 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1915
#6526 (16th percentile)
The name Egan is the #6,526 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,214 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 15.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,439 (25.0% percentile) for all time with 1,165 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,667 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1984.
Egan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Egan is available in 57 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (57 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Egan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Egan reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #830) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Egan ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 60.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Egan reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #818) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Egan".
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