Given name
Eadweard
“happiness, prosperity”·“guard”
Eadweard is a masculine given name from Old English. It is used in Old English.
Original Old EnglishĒaduuard
Meaning & origin
What it means
Eadweard is built from elements meaning “happiness, prosperity” and “guard”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English ēad, built from Old English ēad (“happiness, prosperity”) + weard (“guard”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Eadweard’s family of names
In Old English usage, Eadweard shares a linguistic root with the Icelandic form Auðvarður. In Old English usage, Eadweard has a related form in Ēaduuard. In Old English usage, Eadweard has a related form in Ēadward.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eadweard has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Old English roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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