Egger
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One who gathers eggs
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Egger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4K
- DEGermany≈1 in 13K
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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 206 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who gathers eggs.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Egger is read(measured from records)
Egger is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
One who gathers eggs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Austrian beer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German35%
Berufsname zu mhd., mnd. eggen 'eggen, schärfen' oder Herkunftsname zu Siedlungen auf -egg/-eck; die Karte demonstriert die Schreibung gg in Gegensatz zu ecker.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Egger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #22 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Egger | 125 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Egger | 135 |
| CH Switzerland | #70 | 6,210 | 1 in 1.4K | 6.2K | Egger | 98 |
| US United States | — | 3,334 | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | Egger | 206 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Egger | 59 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Egger | 11 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Egger 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 Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of egg (Etymology 2)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, alternative form of aigar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of egg
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)
- Émile Eggerb. 1813FRFrench classical philologist (1813–1885)
- Albin Egger-Lienzb. 1868ATAustrian painter (1868-1926)
- Joseph Eggerb. 1889ATAustrian actor (1889-1966)
- William Arnold Eggerb. 1900NLSurinamese resistance fighter
- Urs Eggerb. 1955CHSwiss director
- Rainer Eggerb. 1960ATAustrian actor, screen writer and director
- Wolfgang Eggerb. 1963DEGerman automobile designer
- Mirjana Spoljaric Eggerb. 1972CHSwiss diplomat of Croatian origin
- Sabine Eggerb. 1977ATAustrian female Olympic alpine skier
- Reinhard Eggerb. 1989ATAustrian luger
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6.2K | #72 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #10,011 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Egger mean, and where does it come from?
- One who gathers eggs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Egger?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɡə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Egger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Egger in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egger.
- How common is the name Egger?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 6,210 people named Egger in 2024, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Egger compared with other names?
- In Austria, Egger is the 22nd most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eggerThe 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, “Egger” — the 22nd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.