Eggers Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

In census returns, Eggers often stands in for Egger. At root, the name means “From the ridge or corner”. The extra ending in Eggers is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Egger's family. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Eggert and Eggner.

About 7,921 people in the United States were recorded as Eggers in 2010, placing it 4,479 on the national list.

Arms linked to Egger and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Eggers surname pack.