Egit
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɟit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Egit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a drug smeared on the faces of children to ward off ulcers and the evil eye.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 409K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 781K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 409K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a drug smeared on the faces of children to ward off ulcers and the evil eye
Sources 1
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Egit counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 409K | — | Egit | 21 |
| SY Syria | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 781K | — | Egit | 3 |
| BE Belgium | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Egit | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | 5 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Egit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In otk, a drug smeared on the faces of children to ward off ulcers and the evil eye
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
In Latin, third-person singular perfect active indicative of agō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zza, courageous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #55,883 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Egit mean, and where does it come from?
- a drug smeared on the faces of children to ward off ulcers and the evil eye Recorded by Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
- How do you pronounce Egit?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɟit/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Egit a male or female name?
- Egit is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Egit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 201 people named Egit in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egit.
- How common is the name Egit?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Egit, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Egit?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/egitThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Egit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.