Egon
Germanic at root, from the Old High German "ecka", the sharp edge of a blade: sword's edge. Only around 165 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one.
Egon Pronunciation
Egon is pronounced E-gon (/ˈɛgɔn/).
What Egon means
Where Egon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Egon comes from Germanic roots, from the Old High German "ecka," the sharp edge or point of a blade. The short meaning follows plainly: sword's edge. In Polish the sense is rendered as władający mieczem, the one who wields the sword. It grew up as a German name, and its best-known bearers spoke German. Egon Schiele, the Austrian painter, gave it a place in art history before he died in 1918. Egon Bahr, the German politician, attached it to postwar diplomacy.
The name stays short and hard. Two syllables.
It has no diminutive tradition in Polish and no common variant, so it arrives whole. In Poland Egon reads as foreign, a name a teacher might pause over while calling the class register. That rarity gives it a clean profile on an official form at the urząd. There is no folk softening, no home-grown nickname to blur it. What a child named Egon holds onto is the old Germanic word for the edge of a sword.
When Egon celebrates name day
Egon appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Egon
1 in 129371 men in Poland is named Egon. 165 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2508 among male names.
Egon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Egon as a middle name
Egon is a first name for 165 men in Poland and a middle name for another 111, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 668th, between Amine (111) and Eugene (111).
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#666 Stuart112
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#667 Amine111
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#668 Egon111
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#669 Eugene111
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#670 Ramon111