Entry № 2776 · English origin

Egypt Egypt — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-jipt /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Ancient civilization (Mary J. Blige + Janet Jackson naming)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "ancient civilization (mary j. blige + janet jackson naming)".

Egypt is from the Greek Aigyptos — the country in northeast Africa with one of the longest-continuously-occupied histories in human civilization (pre-dynastic period c. 6000 BCE; First Dynasty c. 3100 BCE). Mary J. King Tutankhamun's 1922 tomb discovery by Howard Carter remains one of the most-famous archaeological finds. The name's modern American use is overwhelmingly within African American Christian and Muslim families.

Ancient civilization (Mary J. Blige + Janet Jackson naming) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Egypt
Transliteration
Egypt
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.dʒɪpt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Egypt stands.

Egypt does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Egypts before her.

Real people
Egypt Dean
Alicia Keys's daughter.
born 2014
In fiction
Egypt
The ancient civilization.

Names connected to Egypt.

The number behind Egypt.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Egypt reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.