Given name
Sigfred
“one who enjoys the peace of victory”
Sigfred is a variant of Siegfried. One German interpretation is “one who enjoys the peace of victory.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sigfred is a variant of Siegfried. One German interpretation is “one who enjoys the peace of victory.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Sigfred is a variant of Siegfried. An origin associated with Siegfried is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sigfred through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 10 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 1917. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1916.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sigfred’s family of names
Sigfred has a related form in Siegfried. In Swedish usage, Sigfred has a related form in Sigfrid. In Danish usage, Sigfred has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Zygfryd.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sigfred
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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