Edgars
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Edgars is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 123(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 155K
- ISIceland1 in 6.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123 (inferred from the name graph)
15,288 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Edgars 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #9 | 15,288 | 1 in 123 | 15K | Edgars | 135 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 155K | listed | Edgars | 76 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 688 | Edgars | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 150 | 1 in 68K | 150 | Edgars | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | listed | Edgars | 75 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Edgars | 34 |
| EE Estonia | #643 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 76 | Edgars | 10 |
| IS Iceland | — | 57 | 1 in 6.2K | 57 | — | — |
15,288 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Edgars 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, genitive singular of Edgar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Edgars Krūmiņšb. 1909LVLatvian chess player (1909-?)
- Edgars Šnepsb. 1972LVLatvian basketball player (born 1972)
- Edgars Rinkēvičsb. 1973LVPresident of Latvia since 2023 (born 1973)
- Edgars Masaļskisb. 1980LVLatvian ice hockey player
- Edgars Lūsiņšb. 1984LVLatvian ice hockey player (born 1984)
- Edgars Krūmiņšb. 1985LVLatvian basketball player (born 1985)
- Edgars Eriņšb. 1986LVLatvian decathlete and bobsledder (born 1986)
- Edgars Gauračsb. 1988LVLatvian footballer (born 1988)
- Edgars Vardanjansb. 1993LVLatvian footballer
- Edgars Homjakovsb. 1995LVLatvian ice hockey player (born 1995)
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 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 15K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 15K | #11 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 688 | #2,050 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 150 | #6,459 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 100 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 92 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 88 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 80 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 76 | #786 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 74 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 60 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Edgars mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Edgars a male or female name?
- Edgars 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 Edgars?
- In the etymology graph, Edgar, Eddie and Edgardo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Edgars have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Edgars, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled edgars.
- Where is Edgars most common?
- Edgars is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 123 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Edgars?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 15,288 people named Edgars, about 1 in 123 residents.
- How common is Edgars compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Edgars is the 9th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/edgarsThe 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, “Edgars” — the 9th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.