Sigurd - Origin and Meaning of the name

[ 2 syll. si-gur(d), sig-u-rd ] The boy name Sigurd is pronounced SIHGerD ^KEY. Sigurd's language of origin is Old Norse, and it is used largely in the Manx and Scandinavian languages. Two-element name derived from sigr meaning 'victory' ; vardr meaning 'guardian, defender'. Original forms of Sigurd include the Old Norse Sighvardh and the Old Norse Sigurdr. The name was borne by the legendary dragon-slaying hero Sigurd of the Völsunga saga in Norse mythology; he was known as Siegfried in the Richard Wagner opera The Ring of the Nibelung (1876).

Variant forms of the name include the Scandinavian names Sigvard and Sjurd. Another variant of Sigurd is the Scandinavian short form Sigge.

Sigurd is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1901, 0.006% of baby boys were given the name Sigurd. Its ranking then was #935. The baby name has since experienced a drop in frequency, and is of only irregular use today. Within all boy names in its group, Sigurd was nonetheless the most frequently used in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Sigurd include the Kurdish and Turkish Serhat, the German Sieghard, the German Sighard, the French and Italian Socrate, and the Scandinavian Sjurd.

^KEY: English pronunciation for Sigurd: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; G as in "green (G.R.IY.N)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)"

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for Sigurd
from 1900 to 2007

Variant Popularity Chart
for Sigurd
in 2007