The ancestors of the bearers of the Eggerson family name are thought to have lived in ancient Anglo-Saxon England. They were first found in Egerton, in the county of Cheshire. It is now called Egerton Green. The place-name is derived from the Old English person name Ecghere and tun a word which meant enclosure, farm or settlement, and later came to mean fort, and the town. The name would translate as farm belonging to Ecghere.