Egon
Meaning
formidable; a distinctive heritage name still found in southern Brazil's German colonies
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Egon has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
3,348 people · the #3,599 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 62,500 · median age 60
Among people named Egon living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Egon deep dive
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