Sigurd
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sigurd is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: im 20. Jh. entlehnter männl.
- NONorway1 in 717◐
- DKDenmark1 in 1.7K
- FIFinland1 in 15K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- Sources
- 91 ●
- 1 in 717 ◐
across 12 countries
5.9K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin●
im 20. Jh. entlehnter männl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft, der dem deutschen
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #156 | 7,629△ | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 717 | 28K | Sigurd | 84 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,988△ | 352 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 4K | Sigurd | 28 |
| DK Denmark | #360 | 3,376△ | 464 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 3.4K | Sigurd | 91 |
| US United States | — | 404 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 823K | 404 | Sigurd | 90 |
| FI Finland | — | 374△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 15K | 1.9K | Sigurd | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 94△ | 15 rec. | 1 in 184K | 94 | Sigurd | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 82 | 47 rec. | — | 3 | Sigurd | 22 |
| AR Argentina | — | 56 | 40 rec. | — | 2 | Sigurd | 16 |
| GH Ghana | — | 34 | 37 rec. | — | — | Sigurd | 5 |
| MX Mexico | — | 32 | 30 rec. | — | — | Sigurd | 13 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #250 | 30 | 2 rec. | — | 30 | Sigurd | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 27 | 25 rec. | — | — | Sigurd | 9 |
Roughly 7.6K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 717). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål28K41%
- Danish11K16%
- Finnish6.2K9%
- German5.7K8%
- English5.5K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 27,610 | 41% |
| Danish | 10,648 | 16% |
| Finnish | 6,184 | 9% |
| German | 5,660 | 8% |
| English | 5,542 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sigurd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, legendary Scandinavian hero
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Old Norse; the conqueror
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Nordic form of steGwarb.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements sigr victory + vöròr guardian. According to Scandinavian legend, a character of this name slew the dragon Fafnir, who was guarding an accursed treasure; according to Wagner's treatment in the Ring cycle, this role is taken by Siegfried. Variant: Norwegian: Sjurd. Pet form: Swedish: Sigge .
as a word
In English, The principal hero of the Volsungasaga and of the Elder Edda's Niflung cycle, who slew a dragon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1890 | 6 |
| 1891 | 8 |
| 1892 | 5 |
| 1893 | 5 |
| 1895 | 8 |
| 1896 | 9 |
| 1897 | 7 |
| 1899 | 5 |
| 1901 | 7 |
| 1903 | 6 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1909 | 7 |
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1912 | 13 |
| 1913 | 19 |
| 1914 | 20 |
| 1915 | 24 |
| 1916 | 31 |
| 1917 | 22 |
| 1918 | 18 |
| 1919 | 13 |
| 1920 | 20 |
| 1921 | 15 |
| 1922 | 23 |
| 1923 | 17 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 13 |
| 1926 | 18 |
| 1927 | 14 |
| 1928 | 18 |
| 1929 | 14 |
| 1930 | 15 |
| 1931 | 9 |
| 1932 | 8 |
| 1933 | 11 |
| 1934 | 7 |
| 1935 | 12 |
| 1936 | 10 |
| 1937 | 9 |
| 1938 | 11 |
| 1939 | 11 |
| 1940 | 10 |
| 1941 | 11 |
| 1942 | 14 |
| 1943 | 11 |
| 1944 | 8 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 7 |
| 1952 | 8 |
| 1953 | 12 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 10 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 11 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 8 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 16 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 82 years between 1890–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sigurd Hringb. 800King of the Swedes and Denmark
- Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eyeb. 801legendary King of Denmark
- Sigurd Håkonssonb. 895NONorwegian skald and Jarl of Trøndelag (c. 895–962)
- Sigurd Syrb. 970Norwegian petty King
- Sigurd the Crusaderb. 1089NOKing of Norway from 1103 to 1130
- Sigurd Slembeb. 1100NOPretender to the Norwegian throne
- Sigurd II of Norwayb. 1133NOking of Norway
- Sigurd Lavardb. 1200NONorwegian prince
- Sigurd Hoelb. 1890NONorwegian writer (1890–1960)
- Harald Sæverudb. 1897NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian composer (1897-1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 311 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sigurd?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Sigurd (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sigurd have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.6 thousand people bear Sigurd in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sigurd.
- Where is Sigurd most common?
- Sigurd is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 717 people carrying it.
- How common is Sigurd compared with other names?
- In Norway, Sigurd is the 156th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Sigurd a male or female name?
- Sigurd is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Sigurd mean?
- Recorded meaning: im 20. Jh. entlehnter männl.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sigurd” — the 156th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.