Meaning & Origin
A country in North Africa and West Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.
Egypt is a girl's and boy's baby name of Greek origin, from the Greek Aigyptos, the ancient Greek name for the country along the Nile, possibly derived from the Egyptian Hwt-Ka-Ptah ('House of the Ka of Ptah'), meaning 'land of the river Nile' or 'the ancient civilization.'
Geographical names with ancient civilizational weight — Persia, Arabia, Nile — have been used as given names, and Egypt carries the grandeur of one of the world's oldest and most remarkable cultures: pyramids, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, and a civilization that endured for 3,000 years. Bold and historically resonant.