Siegfried
ZEEK-freet (German); SIG-freed or SEEG-freed (Eng)
German
"victorious peace"Share
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Updated Wed Apr 17 2024
Siegfried Origin and Meaning
The name Siegfried is a boy's name of German origin meaning "victorious peace".
Also spelled Sigfrid, this hefty German name has an appropriately majestic meaning: "victorious peace". Fittingly, a famous bearer was the English World War I poet and pacifist Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was named after the hero of a Wagner opera, which in turn was based on a tragic hero from German legend.
Siegfried Popularity
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Famous People Named Siegfried
- Siegfried FischbacherGerman,American magician of duo Siegfried & Roy
- Siegfried Loraine SassoonEnglish poet and soldier
- SiegfriedCount of Luxembourg
- Siegfried WagnerGerman composer, son of composer Richard Wagner
- Siegfried KracauerGerman writer and critic
- Siegfried LenzGerman novelist
- Siegfried “Sigi” StritzlYugoslavian,American footballer
Siegfried in Pop Culture
- "Siegfried" opera by Richard Wagner
- Siegfried Farnoncharacter in James Herriot's "All Creatures" series