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Sigfrid

Boys' name

Variant of Siegfried

Sigfrid has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sigfrid, 1919

1 in 422,000

Sigfrid 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sigfrid: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Siegfried

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sigfrid means

Sigfrid is a variant of Siegfried.

Origin, language, and formation

Sigfrid is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Siegfried.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Sigfrid between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1919; its best national rank was #4,711 in 1919.

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 Sigfrid?

Sigfrid had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1919, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1919
1 in 422,000
5 of 2,110,182 births
Among boys only
1 in 196,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1919
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
292,534 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sigfrid 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 1919 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 292,534 children born in 1919 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sigfrid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sigfrids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sigfrid was born before 1919 — so the typical Sigfrid is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Sigfrid 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (5)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,711
1919

Spellings of Sigfrid

Sigfrid is not the most common spelling — Wilfrid is, with 46.9% against Sigfrid's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Sigfrid around the world

Where Sigfrid 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.

  • France
    1969–1981
    #2,287
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sigfrid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,711
1919
Peak year
1919
5 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sigfrid

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

SigvardSigmuntSiggiSigfridoWalfridSigfredMadridSigleSigelAstridKridMaridFeridIngridSigmondParidGerridEldridGeridSigurdSigfredoSigismundSigmundSig

Sibling names for Sigfrid

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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