Given name & surname · also Old Norse
Sigurd
“the protector of victory”
Sigurd is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “the protector of victory.”
Original Old NorseSigurðr
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “the protector of victory.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
Its Old Norse formation brings together sigr (“victory”) and vörðr (“guardian”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sigurd through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 869
- 869 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 16
- #5,817 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +90%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 16 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,817 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 405 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sigurd’s family of names
Sigurd has an affectionate form in Sigge. In Norwegian usage, Sigurd developed from the Old Norse form Sigurðr. Sigurd has a related form in Sigmund.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Sigmundvariant
- Sivertvariant · Swedish
- Sjulvariant · Swedish
- Sjurdvariant · Swedish
- Syvervariant · Norwegian
- Sjurvariant · Swedish, Norwegian
- Siegurdvariant
- Seigurdvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sigurd
- Sigurd the CrusaderKing of Norway from 1103 to 11301089–1130
- Sigurd IIking of Norway1133–1155
- Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eyelegendary King of Denmark801–891
- Sigurd HoelNorwegian writer (1890–1960)
- Sigurd RushfeldtNorwegian footballerborn 1972
- Sigurd RingKing of the Swedes and Denmark800–799
- Sigurd SlembePretender to the Norwegian throne1100–1139
- Sigurd IbsenNorwegian politician (1859-1930)
- Sigurd RostedNorwegian association football playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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