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Edgar is definitely my favourite "Ed" name. I do hope it's not too long before it reclaims its place as the king of baby names

A distant branch of my family tree contains a set of four brothers, born in the UK at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries and came to South Africa as children. They were, in age order, Cecil, Campbell, Frederick and Edgar. Apart from them, I've never met or encountered a single Edgar in South Africa at all; its sounds wouldn't work well in Afrikaans, which could account for it.