Girl name#2,224 of girl names
Egypt
Pronounced IY1 JH AH0 P T (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2019
- 50 years in use
- Biblical
How popular is Egypt?
Egypt is a girls' name, and first appears in 1975. It has been given to 5,317 children — the 2,224th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2019, when 289 children were given it.
Characteristics
- Biblical (Place)
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- IY1 JH AH0 P T · IY1 JH IH0 P T
- Stress pattern:
- 10 · 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Egypt
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Egypt
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Egypt?
- Egypt ranks 2,224th among girls' names in US records, with 5,317 births since 1975. Over the past decade it accounts for 2,542.
- Is Egypt a unisex name?
- No. Egypt is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Egypt most popular?
- 2019, when 289 children were given the name. It has been in use for 50 years and is still recorded as of 2024.