Eckbert
Eckbert is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is made up of the Old High German words ekka '(sword) corner, cutting edge' and beraht , shiny 'and thus means' the sword shiny'.
variants
name day
- April 24 : Ecgberht of Ripon († 729)
- November 25th : Ekkebert von Münsterschwarzach (* around 1010 in Germany † 1076 (or 1077) in Münsterschwarzach in Bavaria), 1st abbot of the Münchenschwarzach monastery, see also: List of Abbots of Münsterschwarzach
Well-known namesake
Ecgberht
- Ecgberht I of Kent (around 664–673)
- Ecgberht II of Kent (around 764–784)
- Ecgberht I of Northumbria († 873)
- Ecgberht II of Northumbria (around 876–878 or 883)
Eckbert
- Eckbert von Bohlen and Halbach (1922–1945)
- Eckbert von Schönau († 1184), abbot of the Schönau monastery
- Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk (1921–2016), German agricultural chemist
Ekbert
- Ekbert (Saxony) (around 756 – after 811), Franconian great
- Ekbert (Wetigau) († before 932), Saxon count
- Ekbert vom Ambergau (around 932–994), Count
- Ekbert I. (Meißen) († 1068), Margrave
- Ekbert II. (Meißen) († 1090), Margrave
- Ekbert I. (Tecklenburg) († around 1150), Count
- Ekbert von Andechs-Meranien , Bishop of Bamberg (since 1203), * after 1173; † 1237
- Ekbert Hering (* 1943), German physicist and economist
Fictional characters
- The blonde Eckbert , protagonist of the art fairy tale of the same name by Tieck
Related family names
Family names such as Egbers , Egbert, Egberts were formed from the first name Eckbert / Egbert .
See also
swell
- ↑ Albert Heintze : The German family names . 2nd Edition. 1903, pp. 96, 110 f .