Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Egypt” in the USA?

Number of people named “Egypt” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Egypt” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Egypt” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Egypt” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Egypt” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Egypt” by birth year

This chart shows how “Egypt” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1988 22 0.000005954 22 100%
1989 30 0.000007803 30 100%
1990 37 0.000009361 37 100%
1991 32 0.000008215 32 100%
1992 23 0.000005988 23 100%
1993 36 0.000009548 30 6 67%
1994 42 0.000011297 42 100%
1995 21 0.000005734 21 100%
1996 18 0.000004935 18 100%
1997 24 0.000006619 24 100%
1998 34 0.000009244 34 100%
1999 70 0.00001895 64 6 83%
2000 102 0.000026985 96 6 88%
2001 89 0.000023775 81 8 82%
2002 65 0.000017388 60 5 85%
2003 63 0.000016569 63 100%
2004 61 0.000015965 61 100%
2005 162 0.000042134 156 6 93%
2006 95 0.000024013 90 5 89%
2007 101 0.000025265 96 5 90%
2008 120 0.000030529 120 100%
2009 112 0.000029318 112 100%
2010 105 0.000028411 100 5 90%
2011 128 0.000034994 115 13 80%
2012 132 0.000036092 109 23 65%
2013 200 0.00005486 164 36 64%
2014 218 0.000058818 174 44 60%
2015 231 0.000062417 202 29 75%
2016 332 0.000090495 254 78 53%
2017 334 0.000093395 270 64 62%
2018 346 0.00009841 281 65 62%
2019 361 0.000104007 289 72 60%
2020 340 0.000101779 280 60 65%
2021 345 0.000101832 283 62 64%
2022 366 0.000108184 280 86 53%
2023 291 0.000087884 230 61 58%
2024 208 0.000062491 173 35 66%

Explore other names

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