Dagmar
About 1,592 American babies have been named Dagmar since 1883, most of them around 1915. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 520 Dagmars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dagmar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,592
- Estimated living today
- 520
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 990th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
How old the living Dagmars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,592 babies given the name since 1883, about 520 are alive — 33 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dagmars
- Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847–1928)Empress consort of Russia
- Dagmar of Bohemia (1186–1213)Queen of Denmark from 1205 to 1212
- Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890–1961)Danish princess (1890-1961); daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and Louise of Sweden
- Dagmar Hase (born 1969)German swimmer
- Dagmar Neubauer (born 1962)East German sprinter
- Dagmar Lassander (born 1943)German actress
- Dagmar Käsling (born 1947)East German sprinter
- Dagmar Havlová (born 1953)Czech actress
People named Dagmar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dagmar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dagmar is most concentrated in Minnesota (10.6×), New York (5.0×), Illinois (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Dagmar peaked:
Dagmar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium girls | Dagmar | 303 | 146th |
| Norway girls | Dagmar | 229 | 202nd |
| France girls | Dagmar | 65 | 7,918th |
| Poland boys | Dagmar | 16 birth registrations | 595th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dagmar: rank by region
In 2008, Dagmar was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dagmar | 536 | 10 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dagmar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Dagmar | 2,015 | 2,583 |
| Finland girls | Dagmar | 47 | 606 |
| the Netherlands boys | Dagmar | 77 | 135 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Dagmar lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 230 women called Dagmar were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Dagmar | 39 | 0.062 | 1,113 |
| Palmas, Las | Dagmar | 26 | 0.044 | 1,871 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Dagmar | 22 | 0.040 | 1,850 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Dagmar | 30 | 0.029 | 1,904 |
| Málaga | Dagmar | 16 | 0.017 | 2,396 |
| Almería | Dagmar | 5 | 0.013 | 3,025 |
Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dagmar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.