Dagney

Girls' name

Variant of Dagny

Dagney has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1907. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Dagney, 2020

1 in 477,000

Dagney over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dagney: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dagny

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dagney means

Dagney is a variant of Dagny.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dagney is used in Various (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dagney → Dagny → Dagný. The family’s meaning is “day + new, young”, recorded in Old Norse with the source elements dagr and ný.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dagny.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 girls were recorded with the name Dagney between 1907 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1918; its best national rank was #2,137 in 1907.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Dagney?

Dagney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 477,000; 7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only: 1 in 231,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 330,960 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dagney sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dagney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dagneys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dagney was born before 1918 — so the typical Dagney is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 50.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 31.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Dagney rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1918 (8)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,137; 1907

Spellings of Dagney

Dagney is not the most common spelling — Agnes is, with 69.3% against Dagney's 0.02%.

Agnes69.3%159,517
Lainey12.4%28,421
Laney6.1%14,024
Janey2.2%5,044
Dafne1.5%3,523
Dawne1.1%2,603
Daisey1.1%2,520
Rainey0.95%2,182

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Dagney by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,137; 1907
Peak year: 1918; 8 that year
First recorded: 1907
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 57
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dagney

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Aluney Alaney Elainey Stoney Jerney Alainey Layney Eluney Romney Dulaney Jurney Blaney Dagen Dafney Barney Tifney Elaney Franey Kearney Money Courney Bethney Bretney Disney

Sibling names for Dagney

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Winnifred Johnie Ray Lida Maybelle Floy Garnet Mathilda

For a brother

Granville Valentine Ellsworth Orval Buster Sol Omer Ferdinand

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