Entry № 2737 · German origin

Edelgard Edelgard — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A noble guardian"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a noble guardian".

Edelgard is a name of German origin, meaning a noble guardian.

A noble guardian — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Edelgard
Transliteration
Edelgard
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Edelgard is built from.

Edelgard is a compound name. Its parts are aþal + gard — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

aþal
Germanic
“noble”
gard
Germanic
“enclosure, guardian”

Where Edelgard stands.

Edelgard does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Edelgards before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Edelgard.

The number behind Edelgard.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Edelgard reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.