Dagmar
Dagmar is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 626th, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191545 births
- Best rank
- #626in 1895
- Since 1883
- 1,592people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,592 girls have been named Dagmar in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 45 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 45 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dagmar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 56 | |
| 1890s | 135 | |
| 1900s | 137 | |
| 1910s | 273 | |
| 1920s | 253 | |
| 1930s | 164 | |
| 1940s | 85 | |
| 1950s | 191 | |
| 1960s | 129 | |
| 1970s | 63 | |
| 1980s | 24 | |
| 1990s | 50 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 17 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Dagmar was the 993rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Dagmar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rossiepeak 1919
- Zettiepeak 1924
- Omiepeak 1920
- Helgapeak 1961
- Leontinepeak 1918
- Estapeak 1920
- Adlinepeak 1919
- Elfriedapeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.