Edgar

Where Edgar comes from

From Old English Ēadgār, the name of early English kings, from Old English ēad (“rich”) + gār (“spear”). Compare Icelandic Auðgeir. Hairstyle named after Major League Baseball player Edgar Martínez.
— Wiktionary's entry for Edgar
  • Old English
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1809
    Edgar Allan Poe born
    American writer and literary critic
  2. 1834
    Edgar Degas born
    French Impressionist artist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #61 among boys — 283 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #50
    312 babies named Edgar — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Old English.
Namesakes
  • Edgar Allan Poe · American writer and literary critic, 1809–1849
  • Edgar Degas · French Impressionist artist, 1834–1917
  • Edgar de Wahl · Estonian teacher and linguist, 1867–1948
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs · American writer, 1875–1950
  • Edgar Douglas Adrian · English electrophysiologist, 1889–1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.