Dagmawi
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- dag-MAH-wee
- Origin
- Amharic
Dagmawi is a boys' name of Amharic origin, meaning “the second”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Dagmawi mean?
Amharic: Amharic word used for regnal numbers
“the second”
Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia is known in Amharic as Dagmawi Menelik.
Is Dagmawi a girl's or a boy's name?
Dagmawi is a boys' name.
How popular is Dagmawi in the US?
No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the boys named Dagmawi in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dagmawi in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,072 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,796 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,063 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
Names like Dagmawi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Omari Dakari Kamari Amari Akari Amiri Damari Tadeo Bodhi Jakari Armani Makari
More Amharic names
Amare Aryam Gelila Mahelet Nolawi Haset Tafari Bruk Leul Naod Kidus Melat Haile Menelik Nuhamin Meklit
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dagmawi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dagmawi, updated 20 October 2026.