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Siegfried

#10,519 in 2025Boys' name

Victory + peace, through Sigifrid

Siegfried has been given to 734 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #10,519 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1926, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Siegfried, 2025

1 in 474,000

Siegfried over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Siegfried: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + peace, through Sigifrid

Middle High German and Old High German

What Siegfried means

Siegfried belongs to the name family reached through Siegfried → Sigifrid. Its meaning is “victory + peace”.

Origin, language, and formation

Siegfried is used in German. Its origins include Middle High German and Old High German.

Siegfried comes through Middle High German Sîfrit, Old High German Sigifrid, Proto-West Germanic *Sigifriþu and Proto-Germanic *Sigifriþuz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sigifrid.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Siegfried is pronounced /ˈziːk.fʁiːt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 734 boys were recorded with the name Siegfried between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,653 in 1926.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,816 in 2020 to #10,519 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Siegfried?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,519
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Siegfried sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Siegfried. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Siegfrieds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Siegfried was born before 1958 — so the typical Siegfried is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
442
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1960s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Siegfried rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,640
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,297
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
31.8%
Peak was 1926 (22)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,653
1926

Where Siegfried is used

Across 1910–2025, Siegfried was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,922,284 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Siegfried has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Siegfried around the world

Where Siegfried ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1901–2024
    #5,249
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Siegfried by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,519
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,297
Best rank ever
#1,653
1926
Peak year
1926
22 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
734
Count in 2025
7

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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