Entry № 2231 · Old Norse origin

Dagny Dagny — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAG-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"New day"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "new day".

Dagny Taggart is the iconic protagonist of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957) — the railroad heiress and industrialist heroine.

New day. Ayn Rand's railroad heiress.

The name in its native script.

Dagný
Transliteration
Dagný
Pronunciation
/ ˈdæɡ.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dagny stands.

Dagny does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dagnys before her.

Real people
Dagny Juel
Norwegian writer.
1867 – 1901
In fiction
Dagny Taggart
Heroine of Atlas Shrugged.
Ayn Rand, 1957

Names connected to Dagny.

The number behind Dagny.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dagny reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.