Meaning and history
This name comes from the Old German elements sigu, meaning “victory,” and fridu, meaning “peace.” Siegfried was a heroic figure in German legend and the main character of the Nibelungenlied, where he secretly helped the Burgundian king Gunther overcome the trials set by the Icelandic queen Brunhild so Gunther could win her hand; in return, Gunther agreed to Siegfried’s marriage to his sister Kriemhild. After a later quarrel between Brunhild and Kriemhild, Siegfried was killed by Hagen with Gunther’s consent, stabbed in the only vulnerable spot on his lower back that had been left exposed when a leaf covered it as he bathed in dragon’s blood. He corresponds to the Norse hero Sigurd, and the story was later adapted by Richard Wagner in The Ring of the Nibelung (1876).
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
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2010: 5 births, rank #12,231
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2013: 9 births, rank #8,118
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20162016: 5 births, rank #12,185
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2018: 8 births, rank #8,819
2019: 8 births, rank #8,889
2020: 6 births, rank #10,605
20212021: 10 births, rank #7,587
2022: 5 births, rank #12,330
2023: 7 births, rank #9,763
2024: 9 births, rank #8,312
20252025: 7 births, rank #9,714
In 2025, 7 babies were recorded with the name Siegfried, ranking #9,714 among boys.