King Edgar seated between St. Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. From an eleventh-century manuscript of the Regularis Concordia. British Library MS Cotton Tiberius A iii.

Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819).

People with the given name

Fictional characters with the given name

People with the surname

Fictional characters with the surname

See also

  • J. Edgar Hoover, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Edgar, standard botanical author abbreviation for Elizabeth Edgar
  • Edgars (name), the Latvian language cognate of the English name
  • Edgaras, the Lithuanian language cognate of the English name
  • Edgardo, the Italian language cognate of Edgar
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