MEANING & HISTORY
What does Edgar mean?
Edgar continues Old English Eadgar, combining ead, wealth or prosperity, with gar, spear. It was borne by early English kings and survived as an independent personal name.
The compound uses familiar Germanic naming elements rather than an ordinary sentence. Edgardo is a related Romance form. Prosperous warrior is a loose interpretation, while wealth and spear give the closer roots.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From English Edgar, from Old English. Also from Edgardo.
a male given name from English
EnglishEtymology & source
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.
A male given name from Old English.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Edgar
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Eddie Ilarde
Filipino politician (1934-2020)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Edgar Chatto
Filipino politician
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
70
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
15
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Edgar Chatto, Eddie Ilarde
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Edgar in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Edgar
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Edad♀Familiar form shared by Felicidad, Soledad and Caridad
- Edgardo♂Form of Edgar; wealth and spear
- Edgie♂Familiar Edgar; wealth and spear roots
- Edna♀Pleasure or delight
- Eduard♂Guardian of wealth
- Edward♂Wealth and guardian
- Sugar♀English word name for sugar
- Eddie♂Familiar form of Edward, Edmund or Edgar
What rhymes with Edgar?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Edgar
2 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q2660560 — Edgar (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Edgar Chatto (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2660560 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Eddie Ilarde (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q2660560 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Edgar (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Edgar (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Edgar (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.