# Egon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/egon/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 148 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 148 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 6 | 3,699 |
| 1931 | 5 | 3,931 |
| 1932 | 6 | 3,484 |
| 1935 | 9 | 2,583 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,228 |
| 1963 | 5 | 4,219 |
| 1998 | 5 | 10,096 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,018 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,937 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,335 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9,969 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,158 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,104 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,750 |

## People named Egon

- Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (1890-1918)
- Egon Friedell, Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and th
- Egon Erwin Kisch, Austrian/Czech publicist and writer (1885-1948)
- Egon Zimmermann, Austrian alpine skier (1939–2019)
- Egon Wellesz, Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist (1885-1974)
- Egon Pearson, British statistician (1895-1980)
- Egon Günther, German film director and screenwriter (1927-2017)
- Egon Petri, Dutch musician (1881-1962)
- Egon Eiermann, architect (1904–1970)
- Egon Adler, East German cyclist (1937-2015)
- Egon Drews, Canoe racer (1926-2011)
- Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg, Czech cardinal (1813–1892)

## 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.