Baby name

STABLE UNISEX · GERMAN-BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
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Vagner

/VAG · ner/


“Wagon maker”

Portuguese variant of Wagner, itself from a German occupational surname meaning 'wagon maker'; widespread in Brazil as a given name with no equivalent usage in German-speaking countries.

vag · vagger

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How it ages.

Distinctly Brazilian in feel; reads as a 20th-century working-class name there.

The cultural moment.

Common in Brazil from the 1970s through the 1990s.