Edgãr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edgãr is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. 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.
- ECEcuador1 in 294(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 538
- USUnited States1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 294 (inferred from the name graph)
132,092 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
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, ES Spain, LV Latvia.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Edgãr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 132,092 | 1 in 2.5K | 132K | Edgar | 39 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 57,563 | 1 in 294 | 58K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 43,814 | 1 in 4.8K | 46K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 10,864 | 1 in 4.6K | 11K | Edgar | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 9,481 | 1 in 538 | 9.5K | — | — |
| LV Latvia | #250 | — | — | — | Edgar | 23 |
132,092 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Edgãr 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 Edgãr a male or female name?
- Edgãr 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 Edgãr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 132 thousand people named Edgãr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edgar.
- Where is Edgãr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Edgãr is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 294 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Edgãr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 132,092 people named Edgãr in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Edgãr compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Edgãr is the 250th most common given name of 11,601 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%A3rThe 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, “Edgãr” — the 250th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.