Dagný

This name derives from the Old Norse “dagný,” composed of two elements: “dagr” (day, time, period, duration, a period of time, lifetime) plus “nýr” (new, newly, recently). In turn, the name means “new day, new days.” While appearing in Norse mythology, it had virtually fallen out of use for centuries and was revived in the second half of the 19th-century, which is attributed to a character of that name in Henrik Ibsen’s 1857 play “The Vikings of Helgeland” or more likely as a result of Dagny, a Scandinavian Women’s magazine founded in 1886. In any case, it was at its most common in Scandinavia in the early to the mid-20th-century.