Dagobert
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from the Germanic name Dagobert, dag- 'day' + beraht 'bright'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/daɡoːbɛʁt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dagobert is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 258K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.2M
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.4M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 258K (inferred from the name graph)
67 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Germanic name Dagobert, dag- 'day' + beraht 'bright'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dagobert is read(measured from records)
Dagobert is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German46%
from the Germanic name Dagobert, dag- 'day' + beraht 'bright'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
alter männl. Vom. (wahrscheinlich kelt.- [gallisch-Jgermanischer Mischname zu kelt. daga »gut, sehr« + ahd. beraht »glän zend«, also »der sehr Berühmte«). Dagobert war im 7. Jh. merowingischer Königsname.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
from tag 'day' + beraht 'bright'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- English21%
Merovingian king
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
German: shining sun.
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- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dagobert in Spanish.
- French7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dagobert in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dagobert 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 67 | 1 in 258K | 67 | — | 8 |
| PL Poland | 31 | 1 in 1.2M | 31 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 26 | 1 in 8.1M | 31 | — | — |
| CM Cameroon | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Dagobert | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | 6 | 1 in 1.8M | 6 | — | — |
67 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dagobert Ib. 611FRFrankish king
- Dagobert IIb. 652FRFrankish king
- Dagobert IIIb. 698King of the Franks
- Dagobert of Pisab. 1100ITRoman Catholic archbishop
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmserb. 1724FRAustrian marshall
- Erich von Drygalskib. 1865DEnot in their usual nameGerman geographer (1865–1949)
- Dagobert Freyb. 1883ATAustrian art historian (1883-1962)
- Dagobert Pecheb. 1887ATAustrian architect and artist (1887-1923)
- Richard Brauerb. 1901DEnot in their usual namemathematician (1901-1977)
- Dagobert Dangb. 1958CMCameroonian footballer
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dagobert mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic name Dagobert, dag- 'day' + beraht 'bright' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Dagobert?
- A machine transcription gives /daɡoːbɛʁt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Dagobert a male or female name?
- Dagobert is a male 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.
- In which country does Dagobert have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 67 people named Dagobert, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dagobert most common?
- Dagobert is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 258 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dagobert?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 67 people named Dagobert, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dagobert?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dagobertThe 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, “Dagobert”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.