Edgett Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

People named Edgett carry an English surname with a long history. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of little Ecga (sword)”.

Surname origin

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Edgett surname had 707 bearers. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames.

Edgett coat of arms

Sharing the Edgett name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

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