# Egerton (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/egerton/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “enclosure”, “settlement”, “town” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From the Old English personal name Ecgheard or Ecghere + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## People named Egerton

- Egerton Marcus, boxer
- Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (1916–1991)
- E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (1909–1957)
- Jane Brownlow, British educationist and suffragist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.