Siegfried
Two old Germanic words meet in it: sigu, victory, and fridu, peace, giving victorious peace. It stays foreign in Poland and scarce, carried by fewer than 200 men and given to no newborn in recent years.
Siegfried Pronunciation
Siegfried is pronounced SHEKFR-yet (/ˈɕɛkfrjɛt/).
What Siegfried means
Where Siegfried comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Siegfried comes from two old Germanic words. Sigu meant victory. Fridu meant peace. Set side by side they give victorious peace, the sense that anchors the name. Polish name books render it a little differently, as zwycięski obrońca, a victorious defender.
Before it sat on any official form, the name belonged to legend. Siegfried is the dragon-slayer of the Nibelungenlied, the German epic written down around 1200. Richard Wagner handed him a whole opera, Siegfried, first staged in 1876. A boy given the name inherits that hero whether he asks for him or not.
In a Polish class register the spelling can trip a teacher for a second. It stays German on the page. Victory and peace, sigu and fridu, stay locked together as victorious peace.
How many people are named Siegfried
1 in 126309 men in Poland is named Siegfried. 169 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2467 among male names.
Siegfried as a middle name
Siegfried is a first name for 169 men in Poland and a middle name for another 92, a 65/35 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 749th, between Radzisław (93) and Stephan (92).
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