as a First Name
From an Old English personal name derived from ēad ‘prosperity, riches’ + gār ‘spear’. This was the name of an English king and saint, Edgar the Peaceful (d. 975), and of Edgar Atheling (?1060–?1125), the young prince who was chosen by the English to succeed Harold as king in 1066, but who was supplanted by the Normans. Although used only infrequently in Britain, it is still fairly popular in the United States.
| 529th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 96,147
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 130,533
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- California
- has the most people named Edgar per capita
- 1915
- marked the height of its popularity
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