Egeard is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Egeard
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

A variant of Agard. See Haggard - 1. According to B.L.G. the family are supposed to be derived from the Ogards of county of Herts. 2. Haggard is a corruption of "hay-garth," a rick yard, and is so employed in Hall and Holinshed, as well as in several provincial dialects. See Garth - A yard, or any small enclosure. Also places in counties Montgomery and Glamorgan. It is a prefix to several names of places

3, and most probably, an ancient baptismal name which occurs in Domesday as Acard and Acardus, and in the Hundred Rolls as Hacgard.

The family name is a variant of Eggert. Descendant of Agihard meaning "sword edge, brave".

Lastname is the variant of the Agate. At-the-Gate, of some town or forest; less probably, a sobriquet'applied to a diminutive person, in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings.' Nares and Halliw. in voc. "In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderian," Romeo and Juliet.

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