Eggert or Egert is an Anglo-Germanic given name and surname related to the Egerton family as a minor branch, deriving from the root *agi meaning “edge”. The full meaning of the name translated from German to English would be “edge of a sword”.[1]
As a given name, Eggert is masculine and is primarily used in Iceland.[citation needed] As a surname, Eggert is common among Ashkenazi Jewish families.[citation needed]
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Eggert Achen (1853–1913), Danish architect
- Eggert Guðmundsson (born 1964), Icelandic football goalkeeper
- Eggert Jóhannesson, Icelandic football manager
- Eggert Jónsson (born 1988), Icelandic football midfielder
- Eggert Magnússon (born 1947), Icelandic businessman, former President of the Football Association of Iceland
- Eggert Ólafsson (1726–1768), Icelandic explorer, writer and conservator of the Icelandic language
- Eggert Reeder (1894–1959), German jurist and civil servant
- Eggert Gíslason Þorsteinsson (1925–1995), Icelandic politician, Minister of Social Affairs
Surname
- Anders Eggert (born 1982), Danish handball player
- Christian Eggert (born 1986), German footballer
- Elmer Eggert (1902–1971), American baseball player
- Franz Xaver Eggert (1802–1876), German glass painter
- Hans Eggert (born 1946), German journalist
- Hermann Eggert (1844–1920), German architect
- Joachim Nicolas Eggert (1779–1813), Swedish composer and musical director
- Konstantin Eggert (1883–1955), Russian actor and film director
- Maren Eggert (born 1974), German actress
- Michael Eggert (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Michael Eggert (businessman) (born 1975), Danish businessmen
- Michael Eggert (footballer) (born 1952), German footballer
- Moritz Eggert (born 1965), German composer and pianist
- Nicole Eggert (born 1972), American actress
- Otto Eggert (1874–1944), German geodesist
- Peter Eggert (born 1943), German football player and manager
- Toni Eggert, German luge
Fictional characters
- Pelswick Eggert, the titular character from the animated show John Callahan’s Pelswick
See also
References
- ^ “Meaning & Origin of Eggert”. uptodd. Retrieved 2018-10-21.