Zygfryda
Just 120 women in Poland carry it, and no newborn has been given it since at least 2000: rare enough that most Poles have never met one. Germanic in origin, it means "victorious peace", the feminine counterpart to Zygfryd.
Zygfryda Pronunciation
Zygfryda is pronounced zihkf-RIH-dah (/zɨkfˈrɨda/).
What Zygfryda means
Where Zygfryda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zygfryda comes from Germanic roots, from sigu, "victory," joined to fridu, "peace." Together they give the short meaning the name still carries: victorious peace. The masculine variant, Zygfryd, is the better known of the two, and many Polish readers will recognise it as Siegfried, the dragon-slayer of the Nibelungenlied. Zygfryda takes the same two words and adds a feminine ending.
The name is rare in Poland. A girl called Zygfryda would likely be the only one in her class register, her name sitting oddly among the Zuzannas and Zofias.
The two halves pull in different directions. One is triumph, the other is calm. The Germanic mind that built the word saw no contradiction there, since peace was the thing that victory secured. A Zygfryda holds both parts at once, sigu and fridu, victory and peace.
When Zygfryda celebrates name day
Zygfryda appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Zygfryda
1 in 187865 women in Poland is named Zygfryda. 120 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3082 among female names.
Zygfryda as a middle name
Zygfryda is a first name for 120 women in Poland and a middle name for another 60, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 881st, between Rozanna (60) and Annette (59).
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#879 Noelle60
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#880 Rozanna60
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#881 Zygfryda60
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#882 Annette59
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#883 Brigida59