Diggory as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Diggory

What is the meaning of the name Diggory ?

The baby name Diggory is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced DIG-uh-ree (IPA: /ˈdɪɡəri/).

Diggory is English in Origin.

Diggory is an English given name with Norman-French roots, most plausibly from Old French degaré, “lost; astray,” related to the verb esgarer (Modern French égarer). In the Middle English romance Sir Degaré (14th century), the foundling hero receives this descriptive name, and that literary popularity helped embed the form in England. The sense usually given is “the lost one” or “wanderer,” with a slightly chivalric, questing aura.

Usage clustered in the West Country - especially Cornwall and Devon - where parish registers from the 1500s–1600s record Degory/Digory as a baptismal name. Nineteenth- and twentieth‑century literature revived it: Thomas Hardy’s steadfast reddleman Diggory Venn in The Return of the Native, and C. S. Lewis’s boy adventurer Digory Kirke in the Narnia books. Variants include Digory (single g), Degory, Degare, and Degaré; the surname Diggory also occurs. Sometimes conflated with Gregory, but the etymology is distinct.

⚙ Diggory is exceptionally rare. There are only 3 recorded uses on record, spread over 3 countries.