Edgar

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Edgar: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Edgar: Recorded since 1945, it reached #122 in 1951, and it stood at #340 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
112times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#122highest recorded position
24groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1040
1997	#1345
1998	#887
1999	#906
2000	#1048
2001	#1078
2002	#1322
2003	#945
2004	#841
2005	#1095
2006	#885
2007	#820
2008	#867
2009	#795
2010	#758
2011	#767
2012	#695
2013	#882
2014	#765
2015	#702
2016	#726
2017	#794
2018	#690
2019	#1056
2020	#878
2021	#888
2022	#862
2023	#857
2024	#898

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 72 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #281 among boys in Norway, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #898 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #142 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #122 among boys in Norway, in 1951 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #340 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Edgar appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 72 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 946 births with the name.

Edgar across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Edgar's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#142 (1945)	#122 (1951)	#340 (2025)	72 of 81	946 (1945–2025)	41 (1951)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#265 (1967)	#254 (1972)	#655 (2024)	11 of 58	38 (1967–2024)	5 (1972)
England and Wales · Boys	#1040 (1996)	#690 (2018)	#898 (2024)	29 of 29	872 (1996–2024)	50 (2018)

Edgar by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Edgar in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	151	5 of 10	30
1950s	249	10 of 10	25
1960s	152	10 of 10	15
1970s	94	10 of 10	9
1980s	48	8 of 10	6
1990s	18	4 of 10	5
2000s	57	9 of 10	6
2010s	103	10 of 10	10
2020s	74	6 of 10	12

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 30 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Edgar appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #122 in Norway in 1951.

Edgar's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#898	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#857	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#862	36	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#888	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1056	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#690	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#794	41	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#726	47	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#702	47	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#765	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#882	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#695	48	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#767	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#758	39	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#795	36	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#867	31	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#820	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#885	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#841	25	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#945	20	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1048	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#906	17	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#887	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1345	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1040	13	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#340	10	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#281	14	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#251	17	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#279	14	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#337	9	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#313	10	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#373	8	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#344	10	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#261	18	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#251	19	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#404	8	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#363	10	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#529	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#361	10	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#325	12	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#543	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#449	7	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#444	7	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#441	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#427	7	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#420	7	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#452	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#515	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#410	7	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#496	5	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#470	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#588	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#611	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#611	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#493	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#564	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#568	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#413	10	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#620	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#461	8	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#639	4	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#568	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#565	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#511	6	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#393	10	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#543	5	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#394	10	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#317	14	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#379	10	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#327	13	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#380	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#345	11	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#355	10	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#297	13	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#303	12	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#244	18	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#234	19	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#258	15	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#207	21	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#319	10	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#238	15	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#208	19	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#255	13	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#239	14	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#181	22	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#195	21	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#165	27	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#179	22	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#188	21	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#138	36	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#122	41	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#148	32	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#178	22	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#145	34	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#159	31	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#157	31	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#142	33	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#254	5	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 76 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #122, first reached in 1951.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1967, and 51 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Eden · #30, 51y
Eden-Rose · #1343, 17y
Edi · #3009, 15y
Edie · #108, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Petra · #120, 80y
Inga · #117, 81y
Bo · #129, 77y
Ester · #134, 77y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Anne-Grethe · #122, 38y
Gretha · #122, 24y
Konrad · #122, 76y
Rakel · #122, 79y

Edgar was ranked #122 in Norway · Boys in 1951. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Edgar and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Edgar without appearing here.

Edgar moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1095 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #885 and #2538.
Graham Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1095 and #954 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #885 and #1892.
Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1056 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #878 and #1723.
Garry Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1322 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #945 and #1771.

Moved ahead of Edgar

Ryan Compare
In 2003 they stood at #254 and #307 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2004 that had become #506 and #13.
Jamie Compare
In 2003 they stood at #254 and #307 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2004 that had become #506 and #16.
Filip Compare
In 2004 they stood at #841 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1095 and #615.
Fionn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #254 and #307 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2004 that had become #506 and #41.

Moved the opposite way to Edgar

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.

Moved the same way as Edgar

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Edgar went from #142 to #340 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #122 in Norway in 1951. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Edgar

Edgar at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Edgar across 3 official records

Edgar by decade in Norway · Boys

Edgar appears in

Popularity data

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Edgar and the names beside it

Edgar moved ahead of

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Edgar at a glance

Edgar across 3 official records

Edgar by decade in Norway · Boys

Edgar appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Edgar

Edgar and the names beside it

Edgar moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Edgar

Moved the opposite way to Edgar

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