Dagny

Dagny is a girl name of Norse origin, meaning New day.

What Dagny means

New day.

Dagny sits at 5 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.

Where Dagny comes from

Old Norse names are usually compounds drawn from the natural world, from battle, or from the gods, carried across northern Europe by Scandinavian settlement.

Dagny is recorded as Norse in origin. Browse other Norse names.

How popular is Dagny?

You will not find Dagny in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.

The character of Dagny

We group Dagny under light and brightness and Life — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.

Themes: Light, Life

Names like Dagny

These share Dagny's themes, origin, or both — closest first.

  • Summer — The warm, bright season.
  • Embla — Elm; the first woman.
  • Liv — Life; protection.
  • Solveig — Strength of the sun.
  • Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
  • Akari — Light, brightness.
  • Aurora — Dawn; goddess of sunrise.
  • Ava — Life, bird, living one.
  • Chiara — Bright, clear, light.
  • Chloe — Young green shoot; blooming.
  • Clara — Bright, clear, famous.
  • Dawn — First light of day.

More Norse names

  • Bjorn — Bear.
  • Embla — Elm; the first woman.
  • Astrid — Divinely beautiful.
  • Erik — Eternal ruler.
  • Arne — Eagle.
  • Freya — Noble lady; Norse goddess of love.
  • Gerda — Protection; enclosure.
  • Gunnar — Bold warrior.
  • Harold — Army ruler; a leader.
  • Ingrid — Beautiful, beloved (of the god Ing).