Given name & surname
Sixten
“victory”
Sixten is a masculine given name from Old Norse, meaning “victory.” It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
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 steinn (“stone”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sixten through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 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 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sixten’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sixten
- Sixten SasonSwedish industrial designer (1912–1967)
- Sixten EhrlingSwedish conductor (1918–2005)
- Sixten SildEstonian orienteer, referee, sportsperson and local politician (born 1964)
- Sixten LarssonSwedish hurdler (1918-1995)
- Sixten SparreSwedish nobleman and cavalry officer1854–1889
- Sixten BoströmFinnish footballer and managerborn 1963
- Sixten WackströmFinnish bicycle racerborn 1960
- Sixten MohlinSwedish association football playerborn 1996
- Sixten VeitGerman footballerborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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