Dagobert
Scrooge is a male first name.
Origin and Meaning
The name Dagobert - also Taginbert - is 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 ( glossy).
Variants
Short forms of the first name are Daggi, Dago, Dabbert and Bertel. The female form is Dagoberta or Dagmar.
Well-known bearers of the name
- Dagobert I. ( 608-639 ), Frankish king of the Merovingian dynasty
- Dagobert II ( 676-679 ), Frankish king of the Merovingian dynasty
- Dagobert III. ( 711-715 ), Frankish king of the Merovingian dynasty
- Dagobert of Pisa (also Daibert; * 1107 ), from 1088 Archbishop of Pisa and after the First Crusade, the first official Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser (1724-1797), from Alsace -derived Austrian general
- Luc Siméon Auguste Dagobert (1736-1794), French general, hero of the South of France
- Dagobert Peche (1887-1923), Austrian artist
- Dagobert Biermann (1904-1943), German resistance fighter
- Dagobert Lindlau (* 1930), German journalist and writer
- Scrooge ( singer) ( b. 1982 ), Swiss singer