Edgar

English

"wealthy spearman"

Edgar Origin and Meaning

Variation of Gerik

Edgar Rank in US Top 1000

# 457 in the US

Edgar Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 590 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Edgar

• 457 US 2024
• 590 Nameberry 2025
• 907 England 2024
• 229 Germany 2016
• 82 Portugal 2014
• 137 Mexico 2021

20 Names Similar to Edgar

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Famous People Named Edgar

• Edgar S. Prado Peruvian,American jockey
• Edgar the Peaceful King of England
• Edgar King of Scotland
• Edgar the Aetheling disputed King of England
• Edgar Allan Poe American fiction writer and poet
• (Hilaire Germain,)Edgar Degas, French Impressionist painter
• Edgar Rice Burroughs American novelist; creator of Tarzan
• (John) Edgar Hoover American FBI director
• Edgar Cayce American psychic
• Edgar Holland Winter American rock and blues musician
• Edgar Wright English film director
• Joseph Edgar Foreman aka Afroman American rapper
• Edgar Douglas Adrian Lord Adrian, British physiologist
• Edgar Speyer 1st Baronet, American,British financier
• Edgar Hansen American reality TV personality ("Deadliest Catch")
• Edgar John Bergen American ventriloquist
• Edgar Enrique Renteri­a (Herazo) Colombian baseball player
• Edgar Patrício de Carvalho Pacheco Portuguese footballer
• Edgar Thomas Towner Australian Victoria Cross recipient
• Edgar Steven Davids Surinamese,Dutch footballer
• Edgar Miles Bronfman Canadian billionaire philanthropist
• Edgar Cooper Endicott son of TV personality Melissa Rivers, grandson of Joan Rivers
• Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman b. 2009, son of rapper M.I.A.

The name Edgar in Pop Culture

• Edgar a family band
• Edgar a main character in Shakespeare's King Lear
• Edgar a cow in Achievement Hunter's "Lets Play Minecraft" series.
• Edgar character in video game "Final Fantasy VI"
• Edgar butler in Disney's "The AristoCats"
• Edgar Linton Catherine's husband in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
• Edgar Saul character in "A Certain Man" by Oliver Onions
• Edgar Roy character on TV's "King & Maxwell"
• Edgar Clinton main character in G. A. Henty's, The Dash for Khartoum
• Edgar Gore character in animated movie "Frankenweenie"
• Edgar Huntly character in "Memoirs of a Sleepwalker" by Charles Brockden Brown
• Edgar Frog character in "The Lost Boys" movie series
• Edgar character on TV's "Heroes"
• Edgar Ormskirk main character in G. A. Henty's, A March on London
• Edgar Badlock character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Edgar Allen Pug youtuber Pewdiepie's dog

International Variations of the name Edgar

• Edgardito Spanish
• Edgardo Spanish
• Eadgar French
• Edgard Hungarian