THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Edgardo
Edgardo is explicitly recorded as a given name in Wikidata for Philippine citizens including Edgardo Angara, Juan Edgardo Angara. This snapshot links the name to 19 distinct Wikidata person records. The count describes Wikidata coverage, not the Philippine population or annual births.
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.
SpanishEtymology & source
a male given name, equivalent to English Edgar
Wiktionary: Edgardo (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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People with the name Edgardo
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
Edgardo Angara
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 1993 to 1995
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Juan Edgardo Angara
Filipino politician and educator
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
62
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
19
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Edgardo Angara, Juan Edgardo Angara
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Edgardo in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
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Similar names to Edgardo
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
- Edgard♂Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Eduardo♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Agardo·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Edgar♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Edilardo·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Eduard♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Eduarda♀From Proto-Germanic
- Edward♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
What rhymes with Edgardo?
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Explore Edgardo further
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 Q1284293 — Edgardo (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Edgardo Angara (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q1284293 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Juan Edgardo Angara (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q1284293 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Edgardo (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.