Egmont Gardens in the Sandy Row area recalls the earlier Egmont Street. The name Egmont is best known through the title of Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-68), who was a hero in the Low Countries for opposing the Inquisition in Flanders, for which he was executed by the Spanish. However, there is also a title in the Irish peerage: Earl of Egmont. This was created in 1733 for John Perceval and, although he claimed descent from the Dutch Egmont family, is derived from Egmont, his estate in Co. Cork. The title remained in the Perceval family and was only extinguished in 2011. It is likely that Egmont Gardens is named after one of the Irish Earls of Egmont.
The minutes of the Town Improvement Committee of Belfast Corporation on 25 April 1894 state that following an application from the owners, the name of a new street at Bentham Street has been agreed: “Egmont Street”.