In 2025, 187 US girls were named Egypt, making it the 1,213th most common girls’ name of the year, up 116 places from #1,329 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 173 girls named Egypt in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #917, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 289. For comparison, it was #1,219 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Egypt, making it the 3,050th most common boys’ name of the year, up 298 places from #3,348 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 35 boys named Egypt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,856, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #3,719 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Egypt in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 5,546 US babies have been given the name, 85% of them girls and 15% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,388 babies named Egypt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,528 US girls were named Egypt; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 289. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,595 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Egypt ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #544 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.