Gender Masculine
Usage English, French, Portuguese, German
Meaning & History
Derived from the Old English elements ead "wealth, fortune" and gar "spear". This was the name of a 10th-century English king, Edgar the Peaceful. The name did not survive long after the Norman Conquest, but it was revived in the 18th century, in part due to a character by this name in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), which tells of the tragic love between Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton [1]. Famous bearers include author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950).
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A Series of Unfortunate Events characters, Bully characters, Bungo Stray Dogs characters, Final Fantasy characters, fortune, Harry Potter characters, horror, Hunters characters, King Lear characters, kings, Kings Quest characters, Macross characters, never out of the US top 1000, Philip K. Dick characters, poets, Shadow Hearts characters, Shakespearean characters, Stephen King characters, Supernatural characters, Taboo characters, The Golden Girls characters, The Man in the High Castle characters, The Man Who Came to Dinner characters, W. Somerset Maugham characters, wealth, weapons, William Faulkner characters, Xeno characters
Sources & References
- Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 41.
