# Egli (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,398 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,348 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 220,848 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.1% (1,318 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Swiss/Alemannic German surname, from a pet form of the old name Egenolf, see Egloff. Also found in Germany and France (Alsace). * As a rare Norwegian surname, from a farm named Eikeli, from eik (“oak”) + li (“slope”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Egli 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) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Similar surnames

Egle, Easley, Ezell, Eagle, 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.