Given name & surname · also Swedish
Sievert
Sievert is a surname from Swedish, ultimately from Old Norse. It is used in English and Swedish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Sievert comes from Swedish, and ultimately from Old Norse.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Swedish usage, Sievert as a surname developed from Siegfried.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sievert through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,358 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.
Sievert’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Sievert as a surname developed from the German form Siegfried. In German usage, Sievert has a related form in SIEGWARD. In German usage, Sievert has a conventional equivalent in Siegfried.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sievert
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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