Dagmar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Scandinavian origin, from Dagomar; means “glory of the god Dag” (a light deity)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dakˈmaɽ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dagmar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 106(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.6K
- ISIceland1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106 (inferred from the name graph)
101,292 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Scandinavian origin, from Dagomar; means “glory of the god Dag” (a light deity).
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dagmar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #68 | 101,292 | 1 in 106 | 101K | Dagmar | 120 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,732 | 1 in 24K | 11K | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 282 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,102 | 1 in 2.5K | 4.1K | Dagmar | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,718 | 1 in 6.4K | 2.6K | Dagmar | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,283 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.3K | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 214 | 1 in 1.6K | 214 | — | — |
101,292 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dagmar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Old Norse/Danish name, probably 'day maiden' or 'famous maiden'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, a female given name from Danish, of 19th century origin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, gegen Ende des 19. Jh.s aus dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Gloriosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Scandinavian (now also used in the German-speaking world): of uncertain origin. It would appear to be composed of the Old Scandinavian elements dag day + m r maid. It is possible that it represents a reworking of the Slavonic name Dragomira , composed of the elements dorog dear + meri great, famous (see CASIMIR ). It is now occasionally used also in the English-speaking world.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maria Feodorovnab. 1847DKnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of Russia (1847–1928)
- Louise, Princess Royalb. 1867GBnot in their usual namethird child and eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark (1867-1931)
- Princess Dagmar of Denmarkb. 1890DKDanish princess (1890-1961); daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden
- Princess Märtha of Swedenb. 1901SEnot in their usual nameCrown Princess of Norway (1901–1954)
- Dagmar Lassanderb. 1943DEGerman actress
- Queen Anne-Marie of Greeceb. 1946GRnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Greece from 1964 to 1973
- Dagmar Havlováb. 1953CZCzech actress (1953- )
- Dagmar Manzelb. 1958DEGerman actress
- Dagmar Lurzb. 1959DEGerman figure skater
- Katrin Göring-Eckardtb. 1966DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 101K | #52 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 51K | #60 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 51K | #60 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 11K | #2,056 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 8.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.6K | #1,881 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.1K | #692 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.6K | #681 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.3K | #227 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 2K | #1,356 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #1,881 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dagmar mean, and where does it come from?
- Scandinavian origin, from Dagomar; means “glory of the god Dag” (a light deity). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Dagmar?
- A machine transcription gives /dakˈmaɽ/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Dagmar a male or female name?
- Dagmar is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Dagmar?
- In the etymology graph, Dagmara is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dagmar have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Dagmar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dagmar.
- Where is Dagmar most common?
- Dagmar is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dagmar?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 101,292 people named Dagmar, about 1 in 106 residents.
- How common is Dagmar compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Dagmar is the 68th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dagmarThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dagmar” — the 68th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.