Eginhard
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Old High German agin 'edge, sword' + hard 'strong, hardy'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/ɛɡɪnhaʁt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eginhard is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- ATAustria
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Old High German agin 'edge, sword' + hard 'strong, hardy'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Eginhard is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, alter deutscher männl. Vom. Den
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Frederik Schiernb. 1816DKnot in their usual nameDanish historian (1816–1882)
- Eginhard von Barfusb. 1825PLGerman writer (1825–1909)
- Eginhard Wegnerb. 1918DEGerman regional historian (1918–2001)
- Eginhard Schlachtab. 1919DEGerman politician (1919-1996)
- Eginhard Weißmannb. 1923DEGerman officer and Knight's Cross recipient (1923-1998)
- Eginhard Petersb. 1932DEGerman meteorologist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #2 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
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 Eginhard mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old High German agin 'edge, sword' + hard 'strong, hardy' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Eginhard?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɡɪnhaʁt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Eginhard a male or female name?
- Eginhard 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 Eginhard have the most bearers?
- Eginhard is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Eginhard?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eginhardThe 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, “Eginhard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.