Meaning and history
This name comes from the Old Norse Sigurðr, formed from sigr “victory” and vǫrðr “guard, guardian.” Sigurd is the hero of the Norse epic Völsungasaga, where his foster father Regin sends him to recover a gold hoard guarded by the dragon Fafnir; after killing the dragon, Sigurd tastes its blood and can understand birds, who warn him that Regin intends to betray him. In another episode, Sigurd disguises himself as Gunnar, his wife Gudrun’s brother, to rescue Brynhildr from a ring of fire, leading to Gunnar’s marriage to Brynhildr, and when the truth is revealed, Brynhildr takes revenge on Sigurd. The German hero Siegfried was partly based on him.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
2008: no US SSA record for this spelling
2009: 6 births, rank #10,994
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: no US SSA record for this spelling
2013: 9 births, rank #8,118
2014: 5 births, rank #12,108
2015: 6 births, rank #10,644
20162016: 7 births, rank #9,664
2017: 12 births, rank #6,685
2018: 12 births, rank #6,703
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: 10 births, rank #7,502
20212021: 13 births, rank #6,335
2022: 24 births, rank #4,303
2023: 15 births, rank #5,927
2024: 10 births, rank #7,765
20252025: 16 births, rank #5,608
Sigurd moved from #931 to #935 for boys between 1897 and 1901. Its highest annual birth count came in 1896, with 9 births.