Egon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Short form of various Germanic names formed with Eginor Egil- ‘sword’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈeːɡɔn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Egon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.6K
- DKDenmark1 in 2.1K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of various Germanic names formed with Eginor Egil- ‘sword’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Egon 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.
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: the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Egon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Egon är ett tyskt namn, en variantform till Egino, som i sin tur är en ursprunglig smekform till namn på Egin-, t.ex. Eginhard. Detta namnelement innehåller germanskt *aʒ- ’spets’ eller ’oro, fruktan’. I den rikssvenska almanackan 11 mars.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., seit dem ausgehenden
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
German: medieval name derived from the Germanic element ek , eg edge, point (of a sword), an element that is found for example in ECKEHARD . St Egon or Egino (d. 1122) was abbot of the monastery of Ulric and Afra in Augsburg.
as a word
In Hungarian, a male given name from the Germanic languages
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of ego
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)
- Egon Friedellb. 1878ATAustrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and theatre critic (1878–1938)
- Egon Petrib. 1881NLDutch musician (1881-1962)
- Egon Erwin Kischb. 1885CZAustrian/Czech publicist and writer (1885-1948)
- Egon Welleszb. 1885ATAustrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist (1885-1974)
- Egon Schieleb. 1890ATAustrian painter (1890-1918)
- Egon Sharpe Pearsonb. 1895GBBritish statistician (1895-1980)
- Egon Orowanb. 1902USphysicist (1902-1989)
- Egon Eiermannb. 1904DEarchitect (1904–1970)
- Egon Bahrb. 1922DEGerman politician (SPD) (1922-2015)
- Egon Krenzb. 1937DEGerman politician, communist leader of East Germany
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)
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 64 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.6K | #639 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.3K | #3,718 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.3K | #3,599 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.8K | #181 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 468 | #304 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 197 | #490 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 36 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 9 | #505 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2025 | 2 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2020 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Egon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈeːɡɔn/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Egon mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of various Germanic names formed with Eginor Egil- ‘sword’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Egon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Egon in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egon.
- Is Egon a male or female name?
- Egon 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.
- What are other forms of the name Egon?
- In the etymology graph, Uwe, Ove and Agi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Egon?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4,643 people named Egon, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Egon compared with other names?
- In Germany, Egon is the 360th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Egon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/egonThe 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, “Egon” — the 360th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.