Drogo ( or , diminutive ; ) is a male given name of Germanic origin.
The etymology of the name is disputed, possibly from Proto-Germanic *draugiz ("hard, solid").Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/draugiz. Wiktionary.org. Retrieved 12 October 2025. It has also been linked to Old Saxon drog ("ghost") or Old High German tragen ("to carry"). It may have been borrowed into Germanic from Slavic dorogo ("dear").Patrick Hanks, Flavia Hodges and Kate Hardcastle, A Dictionary of First Names (Oxford University Press, 2006).
People Ordered chronologically. Drogo of Champagne (670–708), Duke of Champagne Drogo (mayor of the palace) (c. 730–?), Merovingian mayor of the palace of Austrasia Drogo of Metz (801–855), Bishop of Metz and illegitimate son of Charlemagne Drogo (872–873), son of Charles the Bald (died 902) (died 921)
Drogo, Duke of Brittany (died 958), also Count of Vannes (died 967) Drogo of Mantes (996–1035), Count of the Véxin
Drogo of Hauteville (c. 1010–1051), Count of Apulia and Calabria
(11th century), hagiographer (11th century), lord of Boves Drogo (bishop of Thérouanne) () Drogo Fitz Pons (), uncle of Richard Fitz Pons Drogo de la Beuvrière (disappeared c. 1087), an associate of William the Conqueror and first lord of Holderness Drogo of Nesle (), a participant in the First Crusade (died 1101), crusader (died 1125), companion of William the Conqueror at Hastings
() Saint Drogo (1105–c. 1185), French hermit (died 1194/1195), castellan and crusader (died 1218), constable of France (died 1249), crusader Drogo de Barentyn (died 1264/1265), English seneschal of Gascony
(died 1413), sculptor and architect (died 1476), secretary of Charles VII and Louis XI of France
Transport Piero Drogo, Italian coachbuilder and car driver Ferrari 250 GT Drogo Ferdinand Le Drogo, French road bicycle racer Paul Le Drogo, French road bicycle racer
Fiction Khal Drogo, the Dothraki lord who weds Daenerys Targaryen in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series Drogo Baggins, father of Frodo Baggins in J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings
Other uses Castle Drogo, a mansion house in Devon, England Drogo Sacramentary, a Carolingian illuminated manuscript from c. 850 AD
See also
Drogon (disambiguation) Dogo (disambiguation) Drongo Diogo (disambiguation) Darga
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