Dagobert
A Germanic name meaning "bright day". In Poland it barely registers: around 31 men carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Dagobert Pronunciation
Dagobert is pronounced dah-GO-bert (/daˈgɔbɛrt/).
What Dagobert means
Where Dagobert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dagobert comes from Germanic roots. The first part, dag, means day. The second, beraht, means bright. Together they give the reading set down here, bright day, or jasny jak dzień in Polish. The same beraht sits inside older German names like Albert and Robert, where it also means bright or shining.
The best-known bearer was Dagobert I, a Frankish king of the Merovingian house who died in 639. He ruled from Paris and was buried at the abbey of Saint-Denis, whose treasury he had enriched. Historians count him among the last Merovingians to hold real authority before power drained toward the palace stewards.
In Germany the name held on, and it reads there as old and solid. In Poland it barely appears. A Polish reader is likelier to meet a Dagobert on a page than in a school register.
What stays through all of it is the pairing of dag and beraht, day and bright, a name that says bright day.
When Dagobert celebrates name day
Dagobert appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 December.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Dagobert
1 in 688587 men in Poland is named Dagobert. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7264 among male names.
Dagobert as a middle name
Dagobert is a first name for 31 men in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 62/38 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2051st, between Cristiano (19) and Daniël (19).
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#2049 Cody19
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#2050 Cristiano19
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#2051 Dagobert19
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#2052 Daniël19
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#2053 Dayan19