Siegfried
About Siegfried
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.
Pronounced ZEEK-freet (German); SIG-freed or SEEG-freed (Eng).
As of October 2026, Siegfried ranked #10523 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1653 in 1926.
Editor's take: The name Siegfried is a boy's name of German origin meaning "victorious peace".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
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| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Siegfried on lists
Famous Siegfrieds
- Siegfried Fischbacher
German,American magician of duo Siegfried & Roy
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
English poet and soldier
- Siegfried
Count of Luxembourg
- Siegfried Wagner
German composer, son of composer Richard Wagner
- Siegfried Kracauer
German writer and critic
- Siegfried Lenz
German novelist
- Siegfried “Sigi” Stritzl
Yugoslavian,American footballer
Siegfried in pop culture
- "Siegfried
" opera by Richard Wagner
- Siegfried Farnon
character in James Herriot's "All Creatures" series
Variations & nicknames
- SiguefredoPortuguese
- SigfridoSpanish
- SiegfriedGerman
- ZygfrydPolish
- SiffreFrench
- SigfroiFrench
- SzigfridHungarian
- SigefriedoItalian
- ZygiPolish
- SigifredoSpanish
- SeifriedGerman
- ZigfridsLatvian
- SeifertGerman
- FredoPortuguese
- ZigfridHungarian