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The EDGAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,607 2833 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 3,279 1872 0.007 66
Change since 1880 +8328 -961 -0.003 -23
Other Countries
Australia 1,405 1163 0.009 86
United Kingdom 7,126 874 0.016 155
Top States for EDGAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,114 2753 0.003 33
Texas 939 2435 0.005 45
Florida 764 2647 0.005 48
Missouri 701 961 0.013 125
Michigan 613 1784 0.006 62
Top States for EDGAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 701 961 0.013 125
Idaho 109 1617 0.008 84
Oklahoma 271 1718 0.008 79
Alabama 310 2140 0.007 70
Montana 61 1921 0.007 68

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called EDGAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called EDGAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called EDGAR in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a EDGAR by picking someone at random in Missouri than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of EDGAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EDGAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the EDGAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of EDGAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 492 4.24
White (Hispanic) 368 3.17
Mixed Race 176 1.52
Asian/Pacific 93 0.8
Native American/Alaskan 60 0.52
White (Caucasian) 10,418 89.76

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the EDGAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of EDGAR in historical publications

EDGAR. Eadgar, a well-known and

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to EDGAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EDGAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EDGAR

The following words are slight variants of EDGAR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.