Egerton
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Egerton’, Kent and Cheshire; respectively ‘settlement associated with Ecgheard’ and probably ‘Ecghere’s settlement’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Egerton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 48Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Person from Egerton’, Kent and Cheshire; respectively ‘settlement associated with Ecgheard’ and probably ‘Ecghere’s settlement’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Egerton is found
(measured from records)Egerton 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Egerton | 159 |
| US United States | 970 | 1 in 343K | 970 | Egerton | 234 |
| AU Australia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Egerton | 103 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Egerton | 13 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Egerton | 17 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Egerton | 33 |
| IE Ireland | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Egerton | 19 |
| GY Guyana | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 19 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Egerton is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, and Ches. The former is so called from OE Ecgheardingtun ‘settlement (OE tun) associated with Ecgheard' (see Eckhardt); the second, which is the main source of the surname, is more likely to have been named as the ‘settle¬ ment of Ecghere’ (in which the second element is OE here army).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A placename:
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Peter Warburtonb. 1813AUnot in their usual nameBritish military officer, Commissioner of Police for South Australia and Australian explorer (1813–1889)
- Taron Egertonb. 1989GBBritish actor (born 1989)
- Tamsin Egertonb. 1990GBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Egerton mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Egerton’, Kent and Cheshire; respectively ‘settlement associated with Ecgheard’ and probably ‘Ecghere’s settlement’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Egerton?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Egerton in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egerton. After it come United States, Australia, South Africa and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Egerton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 970 people named Egerton in 2010, about 1 in 343 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/egertonThe 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, “Egerton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.