Edgerton

loc · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Person from Egerton’, Kent and Cheshire; respectively ‘settlement associated with Ecgheard’ and probably ‘Ecghere’s settlement’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Edgerton is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CACanada
  • GBUnited Kingdom

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.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
336 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘Person from Egerton’, Kent and Cheshire; respectively ‘settlement associated with Ecgheard’ and probably ‘Ecghere’s settlement’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Edgerton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Edgerton is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4.7KEdgerton336
CA Canada——Edgerton59
GB United Kingdom——Edgerton111
RU Russia——Edgerton8
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—10——

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Edgerton is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Эджертон

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Edgerton 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 English, city. WI

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, inventor

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

18001850190019502000Sidney Edgerton, b. 1818Winifred Edgerton Merrill, b. 1862Franklin Edgerton, b. 1885Glen Edgar Edgerton, b. 1887Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, b. 1903David Edgerton, b. 1927Edge Edgerton, b. 1936David Edgerton, b. 1959Nash Edgerton, b. 1973Joel Edgerton, b. 1974

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 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Edgerton
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.7K#7,060
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.7K#6,660
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.3K#7,423
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Edgerton mean, and where does it come from?
‘Person from Egerton’, Kent and Cheshire; respectively ‘settlement associated with Ecgheard’ and probably ‘Ecghere’s settlement’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Edgerton have the most bearers?
Edgerton is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled edgerton.

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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, “Edgerton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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