Baby name
STABLE
🇧🇷 Vagner
/VAG · ner/
Meaning
“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.
Nicknames
vag · vagger
Vibe
strong
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.