Given name & surname
Egle
“edge of a sword”
Egle is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a south German and Alemannic German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “edge of a sword.”
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Where it comes from
As a south German and Alemannic German surname, it comes from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Egle developed from Eglė.
Egle’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Egle developed from the Lithuanian form Eglė. In English usage, Egle as a surname has a related form in Eagle.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Egle
- Egle BecchiItalian pedagogist, historian and academic1930–2022
- Egle Renata TrincanatoItalian architect (1910-1998)
- Egle MartinArgentinian actor (1936–2022)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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