Edgar

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King Edgar seated between St. Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. From an eleventh-century manuscript of the Regularis Concordia. British Library MS Cotton Tiberius A iii.

Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819). The name was more common in the United States than elsewhere in the Anglosphere during the 1800s. It has been a particularly fashionable name in Latin American countries since the 20th century.[1]

People with the given name

Fictional characters with the given name

People with the surname

Fictional characters with the surname

See also

  • J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Edgar, standard botanical author abbreviation for Elizabeth Edgar
  • Edgars (name), the Latvian language cognate of the English name
  • Edgaras, the Lithuanian language cognate of the English name
  • Edgardo, the Italian language cognate of Edgar

References

  1. ^ Evans, Cleveland Kent (1 January 2023). "Cleveland Evans: Why Edgar Was Once the King of Baby Names". omaha.com. Omaha World Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
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