Edgar
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Edgar
Edgar is an Old English name historically associated with the tenth century English king known as Edgar the Peaceful. There was also a King Edgar of Scotland.
Edgar has been a stalwart on the US popular names lists, not dipping below the Top 400 until 2022, and is especially popular (as is Edgardo) with Latino families.
Edgar plays a key role in King Lear and has had several distinguished namesakes, including artist Degas, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, and author and poet Edgar Allan Poe. In terms of style, however, most would rate it a distant third to Edward and Edmund.
Trivia tidbit: Joan Rivers' daughter Melissa named her son Edgar after her father, but he is called by his middle name Cooper.
Edgar is also given to girls.
Pronounced ED-gar.
As of October 2026, Edgar ranked #486 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #51 in 1881, Nameberry popularity #602.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #302 | 1,180 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #317 | 1,114 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #342 | 1,013 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #356 | 939 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #356 | 925 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #386 | 812 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #391 | 789 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #411 | 758 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #418 | 774 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #436 | 714 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #457 | 679 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #486 | 617 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Edgar for boys
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Edgar on lists
Famous Edgars
- Edgar S. PradoBoy
Peruvian,American jockey
- Edgar the PeacefulBoy
King of England
- EdgarBoy
King of Scotland
- Edgar the AethelingBoy
disputed King of England
- Edgar Allan PoeBoy
American fiction writer and poet
- (HilaireBoy
Germain,)Edgar Degas, French Impressionist painter
- Edgar Rice BurroughsBoy
American novelist; creator of Tarzan
- (John) Edgar HooverBoy
American FBI director
- Edgar CayceBoy
American psychic
- Edgar Holland WinterBoy
American rock and blues musician
- Edgar WrightBoy
English film director
- Joseph Edgar Foreman aka AfromanBoy
American rapper
- Edgar Douglas AdrianBoy
Lord Adrian, British physiologist
- Edgar SpeyerBoy
1st Baronet, American,British financier
- Edgar HansenBoy
American reality TV personality ("Deadliest Catch")
- Edgar John BergenBoy
American ventriloquist
- Edgar Enrique Renteria (Herazo)Boy
Colombian baseball player
- Edgar Patrício de Carvalho PachecoBoy
Portuguese footballer
- Edgar Thomas TownerBoy
Australian Victoria Cross recipient
- Edgar Steven DavidsBoy
Surinamese,Dutch footballer
- Edgar Miles BronfmanBoy
Canadian billionaire philanthropist
- Edgar Cooper EndicottBoy
son of TV personality Melissa Rivers, grandson of Joan Rivers
- Ikhyd Edgar Arular BronfmanBoy
b. 2009, son of rapper M.I.A.
Edgar in pop culture
- EdgarBoy
a family band
- EdgarBoy
a main character in Shakespeare's King Lear
- EdgarBoy
a cow in Achievement Hunter's "Lets Play Minecraft" series.
- EdgarBoy
character in video game "Final Fantasy VI"
- EdgarBoy
butler in Disney's "The AristoCats"
- Edgar LintonBoy
Catherine's husband in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
- Edgar SaulBoy
character in "A Certain Man" by Oliver Onions
- Edgar RoyBoy
character on TV's "King & Maxwell"
- Edgar ClintonBoy
main character in G. A. Henty's, The Dash for Khartoum
- Edgar GoreBoy
character in animated movie "Frankenweenie"
- Edgar HuntlyBoy
character in "Memoirs of a Sleepwalker" by Charles Brockden Brown
- Edgar FrogBoy
character in "The Lost Boys" movie series
- EdgarBoy
character on TV's "Heroes"
- Edgar OrmskirkBoy
main character in G. A. Henty's, A March on London
- Edgar BadlockBoy
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Edgar Allen PugBoy
youtuber Pewdiepie's dog