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Dagobert is a male given name .

Origin and meaning

The name Dagobert - also Taginbert - is of West Germanic origin and means as much as shiny as the day or is a combination of the Celtic dago- (good) and Old High German beraht (shiny).

variants

Short forms of the first name are Daggi , Dago , Dabbert and Bertel . The female form is Dagoberta or Dagmar .

Well-known namesake

• Dagobert I (608–639), Frankish king from the Merovingian family
• Dagobert II (676–679), Frankish king of the Merovingian family
• Dagobert III. (711–715), Frankish king of the Merovingian family
• Dagobert of Pisa (also Daibert ; † 1107), from 1088 Archbishop of Pisa and after the first crusade the first official patriarch of Jerusalem

• Dagobert Biermann (1904–1943), German resistance fighter
• Dagobert Böckel (1816–1883), German philologist, teacher, editor and left-wing liberal politician
• Dagobert Duck , cartoon character by Carl Barks (original: Scrooge McDuck )
• Dagobert Frey (1883–1962), Austrian art historian
• Dagobert Kohlmeyer (* 1946), German journalist, translator and photographer
• Dagobert Lindlau (1930–2018), German journalist and writer
• Dagobert Lubinski (1893–1943), German journalist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
• Dagobert Peche (1887–1923), Austrian artist
• Dagobert Schoenfeld (1833–1916), Evangelical Lutheran pastor, scientist, explorer and travel writer
• Dagobert Schwabach (1846–1920), German otologist
• Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724–1797), Austrian general from Alsace

• Dagobert (singer) (* 1982), Swiss pop singer, bourgeois Lukas Jäger

• Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert (1736–1794), French general, hero of the south of France

See also

• Tassilo , another form of the name derived from Taginbert
• Arno Funke (* 1950), department store blackmailer with the code name Dagobert