# Egle (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/egle/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 518 |
| US rank (2010) | 41,959 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 596,034 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.0% (513 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Eagle. * As a south German and Alemannic German surname, short form of ancient Germanic names containing the element *aggju (“edge of a sword”). Compare Egli.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Egle in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Egle in Austria.

## People named Egle

- Madeleine Egle, Austrian luge athlete
- Selina Egle, Austrian luger

## Similar surnames

Eagle, Egli, Easley, Ezell, Eisele, Eckel, Ezzell, Eckley, Exley, Eisel.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.