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Esgar

Gender
Boy
Say it
ES-gar
Origin
Old English
US rank, 2025
#10,690 for boys

Esgar is a boys' name of Old English origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).

Where does Esgar come from?

Old English: probably a variant of Edgar, from Old English Eadgar

Is Esgar a girl's or a boy's name?

Esgar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Esgar in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,690among boys
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 280,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Esgar, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 1995, with 34 boys. It first appears in the records in 1976.

2025 had more boys named Esgar than any year since 2015.

Half of all the boys named Esgar in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1976Busiest: 34 in 19952025
Esgar in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#10,690
20240–
20235#12,232
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20185#12,150
20170–
20160–
20159#8,035
20140–
20135#12,129
201210#7,553
20118#8,760
20109#8,133
20097#9,859
20089#8,319
200717#5,207
200610#7,422
200518#4,626
200415#5,241
200326#3,438
200214#5,124
200123#3,612
200024#3,417
199929#2,861
199825#3,089
199720#3,450
199629#2,585
199534#2,294
199432#2,387
199323#2,937
199222#2,993
199133#2,184
199018#3,303
198911#4,521
19889#4,781
198714#3,334
198610#4,126
19857#5,142
19847#4,969
19830–
19820–
19817#4,959
19809#4,133
19795#6,054
19780–
19770–
19765#5,584

Names like Esgar

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Old English names

Every Old English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Esgar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/esgar, updated 20 October 2026.