Eberhard

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Eberhard is a male given name and also occurs as a family name .

Origin and meaning

Eberhard is made up of the Old High German elements ebur = ' wild boar ', ' boar ' and hard = 'firm', 'rough', but with personal names 'hard' means 'strong and bold'.

While boar is commonly used today to mean the male domestic pig and the male wild boar is technically referred to as boar , the original meaning of the word term - "boar" from ebur - is the male wild boar.

Variants are Ebert, Eberhardt and Eberhart and in Low German Everhard, Evert and Ewert.

name day

June 22 ( Eberhard von Salzburg (von Biburg); * around 1089, probably in Lower Bavaria; † June 22, 1164 in Rein near Graz, Archbishop of Salzburg ).

Well-known namesake

Rulership name

Eberhard

Eberhard I.

Eberhard II.

Eberhard III./IV./VI.

First name

Eberhard

Eberhardt / Eberhart

Everhard / Everhardt / Everhardus / Everhart

family name

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  • Friedrich Eberhard (1782–1835), German lawyer and officer, MdL Nassau
  • Fritz Eberhard (1896–1982), German politician (SPD), resistance fighter and journalist

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H

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  • Igor Eberhard (* 1973), German anthropologist, journalist and author

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  • Otto Eberhard (1875–1966), German Protestant theologian and religious educator
  • Otto von Eberhard (1877–1940), German ballistics and technical physicist

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Surname form Everhard

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Eber in the digital dictionary of the German language
  2. hard in the digital dictionary of the German language