Edgár
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edgár is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from English Edgar, from Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 203(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 231
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 292
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Edgár itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #739 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 494 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 203 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Edgar in US United States, PE Peru, GT Guatemala and 5 more and Էդգար in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- EnglishEdgar(measured from records)
- Old EnglishĒadgār(measured from records)
- Old Englishēad“rich”(measured from records)
Borrowed from English Edgar, from Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir.
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edgár counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #237 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 678 | — | Edgar | 123 |
| US United States | #880 | 132,092 | 1 in 2.5K | 132K | Edgar | 494 |
| VE Venezuela | #55 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | — | Edgar | 104 |
| CO Colombia | #126 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | 118 | Edgar | 182 |
| PE Peru | #70 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 369 | — | Edgar | 112 |
| GT Guatemala | #9 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 203 | 264K | Edgar | 97 |
| EC Ecuador | #83 | 57,563 | 1 in 294 | 58K | Edgar | 95 |
| PY Paraguay | #46 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | — | Edgar | 72 |
| AM Armenia | #41 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 233 | 80 | Էդգար | 82 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAP — annual births; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edgar Kovátsb. 1849UAPolish architect (1849–1912)
- Iván Edgár Nagyb. 1879HUHungarian museologist, literary translator (1879-1947)
- Edgár Palóczib. 1887HUteacher, journalist
- Edgár Artnerb. 1895HUHungarian Catholic priest, theologian and lecturer (1895-1972)
- Edgár Baloghb. 1906ROwriter, journalist, educator (1906–1996)
- Edgár Székelyb. 1932HUHungarian pediatrician, pulmonologist (1932–2021)
- Varga László Edgárb. 1985RORomanian poet
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Edgár mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from English Edgar, from Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- Is Edgár a male or female name?
- Edgár is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Edgár have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Edgár in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edgar.
- How common is the name Edgár?
- In the United States, the national register counted 132,092 people named Edgár in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Edgár compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Edgár is the 237th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edg%C3%A1rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edgár” — the 237th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.