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“day”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Dag is a masculine given name documented in French, German, Swedish and 6 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Dagr, with the stated meaning “day”.
Separate records with matching spellings: Dağ (Turkish)
2 source accounts
Meaning: “day”
From Old Norse Dagr, from dagr (“day”), whence also dag. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Dagur, and Swedish and Danish Dag.
Du nom de la personnification du jour dans la mythologie scandinave.
02 / Across borders
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3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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United States, 1971: 6 boys (rank 4375).
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03 / By the numbers
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1945–2025 Spelling: Dag
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 164 | 48 | observed |
| 1946 | 208 | 43 | observed |
| 1947 | 179 | 46 | observed |
| 1948 | 147 | 57 | observed |
| 1949 | 161 | 50 | observed |
| 1950 | 178 | 43 | observed |
| 1951 | 195 | 40 | observed |
| 1952 | 248 | 34 | observed |
| 1953 | 236 | 37 | observed |
| 1954 | 244 | 35 | observed |
| 1955 | 293 | 30 | observed |
| 1956 | 284 | 30 | observed |
| 1957 | 289 | 29 | observed |
| 1958 | 262 | 33 | observed |
| 1959 | 285 | 28 | observed |
| 1960 | 316 | 22 | observed |
| 1961 | 416 | 19 | observed |
| 1962 | 408 | 21 | observed |
| 1963 | 330 | 22 | observed |
| 1964 | 322 | 26 | observed |
| 1965 | 321 | 27 | observed |
| 1966 | 261 | 38 | observed |
| 1967 | 273 | 34 | observed |
| 1968 | 305 | 31 | observed |
| 1969 | 311 | 31 | observed |
| 1970 | 289 | 33 | observed |
| 1971 | 267 | 38 | observed |
| 1972 | 222 | 41 | observed |
| 1973 | 224 | 39 | observed |
| 1974 | 156 | 52 | observed |
| 1975 | 162 | 48 | observed |
| 1976 | 147 | 55 | observed |
| 1977 | 154 | 47 | observed |
| 1978 | 122 | 61 | observed |
| 1979 | 84 | 94 | observed |
| 1980 | 107 | 72 | observed |
| 1981 | 96 | 76 | observed |
| 1982 | 121 | 69 | observed |
| 1983 | 101 | 84 | observed |
| 1984 | 92 | 83 | observed |
| 1985 | 112 | 68 | observed |
| 1986 | 77 | 107 | observed |
| 1987 | 90 | 83 | observed |
| 1988 | 65 | 125 | observed |
| 1989 | 61 | 124 | observed |
| 1990 | 58 | 130 | observed |
| 1991 | 61 | 122 | observed |
| 1992 | 52 | 134 | observed |
| 1993 | 54 | 127 | observed |
| 1994 | 41 | 157 | observed |
| 1995 | 34 | 179 | observed |
| 1996 | 33 | 178 | observed |
| 1997 | 33 | 179 | observed |
| 1998 | 23 | 224 | observed |
| 1999 | 17 | 251 | observed |
| 2000 | 22 | 226 | observed |
| 2001 | 10 | 331 | observed |
| 2002 | 13 | 284 | observed |
| 2003 | 11 | 321 | observed |
| 2004 | 7 | 390 | observed |
| 2005 | 13 | 283 | observed |
| 2006 | 10 | 345 | observed |
| 2007 | 13 | 302 | observed |
| 2008 | 7 | 439 | observed |
| 2009 | 8 | 421 | observed |
| 2010 | 13 | 322 | observed |
| 2011 | 6 | 452 | observed |
| 2012 | 6 | 461 | observed |
| 2013 | 7 | 424 | observed |
| 2014 | 6 | 457 | observed |
| 2015 | 4 | 511 | observed |
| 2016 | 4 | 511 | observed |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | 4 | 499 | observed |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | 7 | 404 | observed |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | 6 | 417 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Dag” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
DAG— “day”
In the _Edda_, Nôtt, or night, the dark, one of the Jotun, is the wife of Dellingr, the brilliant and beautiful, one of the Æsir, and their son is Dag or Day. Mother and son each have a chariot in which they career round the sky, in pursuit of one another. The horse of Day is Shinfaxi, of shining mane; the horse of Night is Hrimfaxi, rime or frost mane.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter III (Names From Objects Connected With Mythology), Section I (Day) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
