Dagmara
A Slavic name built from the elements for day and fame, read together as "a famous day". Around 32,000 women in Poland carry it, but it's given to fewer girls with each passing year.
Dagmara Pronunciation
Dagmara is pronounced dahg-MAH-rah (/dagˈmara/).
What Dagmara means
Where Dagmara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Dagmara comes from Slavic roots, and its parts point to day and to fame. In English it gets rendered as day maiden, in Polish as sławny dzień, a famous day. The sense of a bright or celebrated day is a reading laid over the old elements rather than a strict translation of them.
History gives the name a real bearer. Dagmar of Bohemia married Valdemar II of Denmark in 1205 and became a queen whom Danish folk songs remembered fondly long after her death in 1212. Through her the form Dagmar traveled north and stayed, while Polish keeps Dagmara as the fuller feminine.
On a Polish class register the name sits plainly, and a teacher reading it aloud meets its softer forms too. Friends shorten it to Daga. The variant Dagmar crosses back and forth. Whatever the paperwork at the urząd records, the spine holds: a Slavic name built from day, meaning a famous day.
How many people are named Dagmara
1 in 709 women in Poland is named Dagmara. 31,802 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #236 among female names.
Dagmara's popularity over time
70 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #293 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #236 name among living women, even as it slips to #293 among newborns.
Where Dagmara is most popular
Dagmara is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 53% above the national average (52 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+34%) and Lublin (+30%). It is least common in Masovian and Świętokrzyskie, 38% and 35% below average respectively.
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Warmian-Masurian52 girls born+53%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian69 girls born+34%
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Lublin63 girls born+30%
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Lesser Poland134 girls born+25%
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Subcarpathian69 girls born+21%
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Silesian123 girls born+15%
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Pomeranian79 girls born+14%
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Greater Poland108 girls born+6%
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Podlaskie29 girls born−7%
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Lower Silesian61 girls born−18%
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Lubusz19 girls born−19%
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Łódź48 girls born−20%
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Opole17 girls born−22%
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West Pomeranian29 girls born−27%
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Świętokrzyskie17 girls born−35%
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Masovian103 girls born−38%
Dagmara as a middle name
Dagmara is a first name for 31,802 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10,634, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 106th, between Eugenia (10,856) and Marlena (10,361).
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104
11,468Wioleta
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105
10,856Eugenia
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10610,634Dagmara
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107
10,361Marlena
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108
10,284Nikola
When Dagmara celebrates name day
Dagmara appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 12 December.