Given name
Sigbjørn
“victory”·“bear”
Sigbjørn is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese and Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sigbjørn is built from elements meaning “victory” and “bear”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sigbjørn’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sigbjørn
- Sigbjørn ObstfelderNorwegian writer (1866–1900)
- Sigbjørn JohnsenNorwegian politicianborn 1950
- Sigbjørn HølmebakkNorwegian writer (1922–1981)
- Sigbjørn SkådenNorwegian Sami writerborn 1976
- Sigbjørn GjelsvikNorwegian politicianborn 1974
- Sigbjørn SlinningNorwegian association football playerborn 1945
- Sigbjørn Bernhoft OsaNorwegian musician (1910–1990)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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