Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Edwar isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Edwar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 303
- 303 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,034 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −16%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,034 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 949 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Edwar’s family of names
Edwar has a conventional equivalent in the French form Édouard.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Edwar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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