Edgars

given name · Latvian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Edgars is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 123◐
  • FIFinland1 in 73K
  • ISIceland1 in 5.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈16K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
121 ●

4.9K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 123 ◐

Latvia

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Edgars is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#915,288△3.5K rec.1 in 12315KEdgars121
FI Finland—1,06317 rec.—522Edgars11
GB United Kingdom—888430 rec.—listedEdgars65
US United States—591430 rec.—listedEdgars68
EE Estonia—23066 rec.—76Edgars9
SE Sweden—150△23 rec.1 in 68K150Edgars13
NO Norway—11786 rec.—688Edgars17
PL Poland—113—1 in 339K113——
IE Ireland—8982 rec.——Edgars18
RU Russia—8570 rec.——Edgars22
NL Netherlands—7644 rec.——Edgars9
DK Denmark—73—1 in 80K73——

Roughly 15K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 123). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Latvian25K78%
  • English1.5K5%
  • Finnish1.1K3%
  • Norwegian Bokmål6882%
  • German5182%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian25,02178%
English1,5235%
Finnish1,0863%
Norwegian Bokmål6882%
German5182%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Edgars is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name272 records spelled Edgars2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia, United Kingdom, Belgium

    Also written Edgar’s

  • Russian given name253 records spelled Edgars85 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Эдгар, Edgar, Эдгард, Едгар, Эдгарс

  • Croatian given name83 records spelled Edgars7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Едгарс

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Edgars is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, genitive singular of Edgar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

025507510020002005201020152020

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Edgars in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2000–2020
Yearrecords
200010
200111
200214
200312
200410
200513
200615
200716
200820
200926
201032
201141
201245
201350
201460
201570
201674
201780
201888
201992
2020100

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 21 years between 2000–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Edgars Krūmiņš, b. 1909Edgars Šneps, b. 1972Edgars Rinkēvičs, b. 1973Edgars Masaļskis, b. 1980Edgars Lūsiņš, b. 1984Edgars Krūmiņš, b. 1985Edgars Eriņš, b. 1986Edgars Gauračs, b. 1988Edgars Vardanjans, b. 1993Edgars Homjakovs, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Edgars
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—15K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—15K#11
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—688#2,050
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—522#2,047
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—150#6,459
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026113#1,903
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020100—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—97#1,984
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201992—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201888—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201780—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—76#786

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 46 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Edgars?
We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Edgars (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Edgars have the most bearers?
We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Edgars in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled edgars.
Where is Edgars most common?
Edgars is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 123 people carrying it.
How common is Edgars compared with other names?
In Latvia, Edgars is the 9th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
Is Edgars a male or female name?
Edgars is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Edgars mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Edgars” — the 9th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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