Given name & surname · also Germanic
Siegfried
“one who enjoys the peace of victory”
Siegfried is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who enjoys the peace of victory.”
Original GermanSievert
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who enjoys the peace of victory.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
From Middle High German Sîfrit, from Old High German Sigifrid, from Proto-West Germanic *Sigifriþu, from Proto-Germanic *Sigifriþuz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Siegfried through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 734
- 734 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,523 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +41%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,523 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,244 as a first name in 2020; 3,570 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Siegfried’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Siegfried has a diminutive in SIGITA. In German usage, Siegfried shares a linguistic root with the Old English form Sigefriþ. In German usage, Siegfried has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form SIGFRIDO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Siegfried has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
13 related names in 11 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 18
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Sigfredoborrowing · Spanish
- SigfridoItalian
- Siegfredequivalent
- Siegbertequivalent
- Sigefriþcognate · Old English
- Zigfrīdsborrowing · Latvian
- ŽibřidCzech
- Zygfrydborrowing · Polish
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Siegfried
- Siegfried LenzGerman author (1926-2014)
- Siegfried SassoonEnglish war poet and writer (1886-1967)
- Siegfried KracauerGerman writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966)
- Siegfried WagnerGerman opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)
- Siegfried MarcusGerman-Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer1831–1898
- Siegfried, Count of the ArdennesFirst Count of Luxembourg919–998
- Sigfrid Karg-ElertGerman composer (1877–1933)
- Siegfried SelberherrAustrian university professor and microelectronics scientistborn 1955
- Siegfried RauchGerman film and television actor (1932-2018)
Characters named Siegfried: Dubhe Alpha Siegfried (Saint Seiya).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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