Edgar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edgar 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. In English, recorded as From the Old English male personal name Edgar, literally ‘wealth-spear’.
- 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 Edgar 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)
Locally spelled 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)
From the Old English male personal name Edgar, literally ‘wealth-spear’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Edgar is read(measured from records)
Edgar is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish55%
Anglosajón Eadgar: ead ‘propiedad, riqueza’ + gar ‘lanza’; ‘lanza protectora de la propiedad’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English28%
From the Old English male personal name Edgar, literally ‘wealth-spear’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from OE Ēadgār ‘prosperity-spear’; first attested Edgar 1066 DB (Hu)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A male given name from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edgar 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Edgar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Old English, from ēad ‘wealth, prosperity’ + gār ‘spear’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Swedish, Edgar är ett engelskt namn, sammansatt av fornengelskans ēad ’rikedom; egendom’ och gār (→ Ger-, -ger). En känd namnbärare var den amerikanske författaren Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49). I den rikssvenska almanackan 31 oktober och i den finlandssvenska 29 november.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Edgarb. 943GBKing of the English (r. 959–975)
- Edgar Allan Poeb. 1809USAmerican writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
- Edgar Degasb. 1834FRFrench Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
- Edgar Rice Burroughsb. 1875USAmerican writer (1875–1950)
- Edgar Douglas Adrianb. 1889GBEnglish electrophysiologist (1889-1977)
- John Edgar Hooverb. 1895USAmerican law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
- E. L. Doctorowb. 1931USnot in their usual namenovelist, editor, professor (1931-2015)
- Edgar Lungub. 1956ZMPresident of Zambia from 2015 to 2021 (1956–2025)
- Edgar Davidsb. 1973NLDutch association football player and manager
- Eric Dierb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
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 121 sources across 62 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | RENAP — annual births | 2024 | 264K | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 132K | #428 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 58K | #32 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 617 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 274 | #428 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 120 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 118 | #32 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Edgar mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Old English male personal name Edgar, literally ‘wealth-spear’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Edgar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Edgar in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edgar.
- Is Edgar a male or female name?
- Edgar 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.
- What are other forms of the name Edgar?
- In the etymology graph, Eddie, Edgardo and Ed are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Edgar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 132,092 people named Edgar in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Edgar compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Edgar 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/edgarThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Edgar” — the 237th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.