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Sigurd

#5,815 in 2025Boys' name

Victory + guard, through Sigurðr

Sigurd has been given to 869 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #5,815 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Sigurd, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sigurd: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + guard, through Sigurðr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sigurd means

Sigurd belongs to the name family reached through Sigurd → Sigurðr → *Sigiwarduz. Its meaning is “victory + guard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sigurd is used in Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sigurðr and *Sigiwarduz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 869 boys were recorded with the name Sigurd between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1916; its best national rank was #756 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,960 in 2020 to #5,815 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,873 in 2015 to #5,815 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 Sigurd?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,815
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sigurd 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sigurd. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sigurds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sigurd was born before 1932 — so the typical Sigurd is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
269
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Choose a decade

1910s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Sigurd 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
+2,413
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,145
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,058
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.6%
Peak was 1916 (31)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#756
1891

Spellings of Sigurd

Sigurd is not the most common spelling — Sigmund is, with 76.7% against Sigurd's 23.3%.

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.

Where Sigurd is used

Across 1910–2025, Sigurd was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 442,354 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Sigurd has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sigurd around the world

Where Sigurd 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
    2017–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2019–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • France
    2025–2025
    #4,669
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #47
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #548
    in 1962

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

Sigurd by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,815
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,145
Best rank ever
#756
1891
Peak year
1916
31 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
869
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Sigurd

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

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Sibling names for Sigurd

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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