Edgar

Edgar comes from the Old English ead, meaning wealth or fortune, and gar, meaning spear, a compound name borne by an Anglo-Saxon king known as Edgar the Peaceful. It has drifted in and out of English and American fashion for a thousand years, picking up Edgar Allan Poe's ravens along the way and, more recently, becoming a staple of Latino households, where it's often pronounced with a rolled r and warm Spanish vowels. At rank 457, Edgar sits comfortably cross-cultural. Two crisp syllables, a firm front, a handsome close. Literary, a little gothic, a little regal, and wholly secure in its Anglo-Saxon bones.