Zygfryd
A Germanic name meaning "victorious peace". Fewer than 4,000 Polish men carry it, and boys almost never get it now: most Poles have never met a Zygfryd.
Zygfryd Pronunciation
Zygfryd is pronounced ZIHKF-riht (/ˈzɨkfrɨt/).
What Zygfryd means
Where Zygfryd comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zygfryd traces back to two Germanic words: sigu, victory, and frithu, peace or protection. Together they read as victorious peace. The German cognate is Siegfried, the dragon-slayer of the medieval Nibelungenlied and, centuries later, of Wagner's operas.
In Poland the name came through German-speaking neighbours and never grew common. On a school class register you might meet one Zygfryd, rarely two. The feminine form, Zygfryda, is rarer still, though it follows the same roots and the same meaning.
What draws people to Zygfryd is the pairing of two ideas that usually pull apart. Victory suggests conflict; peace suggests its end. The name holds both. A boy given it answers to a word that treats winning and settling down as a single thing. The two Germanic halves survive whole in the modern spelling: zyg from victory, fryd from peace.
How many people are named Zygfryd
1 in 5441 men in Poland is named Zygfryd. 3,923 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #536 among male names.
Zygfryd's popularity over time
0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Zygfryd as a middle name
Zygfryd is a first name for 3,923 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,911, a 67/33 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 180th, between Aleksy (1,952) and Maurycy (1,865).
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178
2,000Olgierd
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179
1,952Aleksy
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1801,911Zygfryd
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181
1,865Maurycy
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182
1,855August
When Zygfryd celebrates name day
Zygfryd appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 15 February.