Given name & surname · also Old English
Egbert
“one who wields a brilliant sword”
Egbert is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who wields a brilliant sword.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who wields a brilliant sword.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old English.
How it developed
Its Old English formation brings together ecg (“edge (of a sword)”) and beorht (“bright, famous”).
The story
The name’s historical associations include two English saints of the 8th century and a 9th-century king of Wessex.
Egbert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,231
- 1,231 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 47 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 47 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 740 as a first name in 2020; 5,082 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Egbert’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Egbert has a diminutive in EP. Egbert has a feminine form in Egberta. In German usage, Egbert has a related form in AGBERT.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Eppet form · Dutch
- Agbertvariant · German
- Egbyrtevariant
- Egbyrtvariant
- Egbirtevariant
- Egbirtvariant
- Egburtevariant
- Egburtvariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Egbert
- Ecgberht, King of WessexKing of Wessex771–839
- Edward R. MurrowAmerican broadcast journalist (1908–1965)
- Aloe BlaccAmerican singer and rapperborn 1979
- Egbert HirschfelderGerman rower (1942–2022)
- Ecgberht of KentKentish King700–673
- Bert WilliamsAmerican comedian and actor (1874–1922)
- Egbert II of MeissenGermanic noble (c. 1060–1090)
- EgbertRoman Catholic archbishop of Trier950–993
- Ecgberht II of KentKing of Kent800
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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