Egg

loc · Latin script

Meaning: An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Egg is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • CYCyprus
  • ITItaly
  • CHSwitzerland

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Egg is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Gutturalplosive: Typ mit auslautendem -gg nach Vokal; 31 Types/1243 Tokens, 134 Belege für Egg.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In English, hgalu, ngaru = yalu, plu. hgaluisia

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Swedish, The sharp edge of a cutting tool.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, singular imperative of eggen

    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)

1700180019002000Durs Egg, b. 1748Augustus Leopold Egg, b. 1816Josef Egg, b. 1820Oscar Egg, b. 1890Stellinha Egg, b. 1914Erich Egg, b. 1920Herbert Egg, b. 1927Rudolf Egg, b. 1948Markus Egg, b. 1954Rabea Egg, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Egg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—721#12,290
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024314#4,171
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000175#96,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020172#109,465
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010170#105,079
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—12#73,419
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199112—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200710#64,344
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196110—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—9#126,713
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19417—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Egg mean, and where does it come from?
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Egg have the most bearers?
Egg is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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