boys:
148 births since 1913
#4438 (3rd percentile)
overall:
148 births since 1913
#7591 (2nd percentile)
The name Egon is the #7,591 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 148 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,438 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 148 births since 1913.
Egon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Egon is available in 24 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Egon reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #512) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Egon ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 26.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Egon".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Egon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Egon is pronounced as EE-gahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-guhn, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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