Dagmar

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Dagmar
Gender	Female
Meaning	dagr (day), mær (maid)
Region of Origin	Scandinavia, Germany
Origin	Old Norse
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with "Dagmar"

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Dagmar is a feminine Scandinavian and German given name, derived from the Old Norse name (Dagmær), dagr meaning "day", and mær meaning "maid".^[1]

Nicknames: Dagie, Dagmarka, Dasha, Digi, Mara.^{[citation needed]}

Dagmar is uncommon as a surname or as a male name (as the male version is Dagomar).

People with the name Dagmar include:

• Dagmar of Denmark
  • Queen Dagmar of Denmark (1186–1212), see Markéta of Bohemia
  • Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890 - 1961), youngest child and fourth daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway.
  • Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) (1847 – 1928), Empress Consort of Russia

• Dagmar (American actress) (1921 - 2001), American TV personality
• Dagmar (Puerto Rico entertainer) (b. 1959), television host, comedian and singer
• Dagmar Berne (1865 – 1900), Australian medical doctor; first female student to study medicine in Australia
• Dagmar Bláhová, Czech actress
• Dagmar Braun Celeste (b. 1941), secretly ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church under the pseudonym Angela White
• Dagmar Dahlgren (?-?), American singer and motion picture actress
• Dagmar Godowsky (1897 - 1975), American silent film actress
• Dagmar Hase (b. 1969), German swimmer
• Dagmar Havlová née Veškrnová (b. 1953), Czech actress
• Dagmar Kersten (b. ?), German gymnast
• Dagmar Koller (b. 1939), Austrian actress and singer
• Dagmar Krause (b. 1950), German singer
• Dagmar Lahlum (1922 — 1999), Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II
• Dagmar Lassander (b. 1943), actress
• Dagmar Lurz (b. 1959), German figure skater
• Dagmar Midcap (b. 1969), Canadian media personality
• Dagmar Neubauer (b. 1962), German athlete
• Dagmar Nordstrom (1903 - 1976), American composer, pianist, singer
• Dagmar Oakland (1893 - 1989), American actress
• Dagmar Overbye (1883 - 1929), Danish child murderer and serial killer
• Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (b. 1953), German politician
• Dagmar Salén (1901 - 1980), Swedish sailor
• Dagmar Švubová (b. ?), Czechoslovak cross country skier
• Dagmar Wöhrl (b. 1954), German politician

Dagmar may also refer to:

• 1669 Dagmar (1934 RS), a Main-belt Asteroid
• Dagmar (automobile), sports version of the Crawford Automobile
• Dagmar bumpers, slang term for the artillery shell shaped styling elements found on the front bumper/grille assemblies on several makes of cars produced in the 1950s
• DAGMAR marketing, an advertising model

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