# Siegfried (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/siegfried/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 734 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 734 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 11, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | 8,296 |
| 1994 | 5 | 10,039 |
| 1997 | 7 | 7,992 |
| 2000 | 6 | 10,169 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,958 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,661 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,906 |
| 2018 | 8 | 9,537 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,617 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,822 |
| 2021 | 10 | 8,076 |
| 2022 | 5 | 14,038 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,644 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,884 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,523 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4 | 3,865 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Siegfried

- Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
- Siegfried Wagner, German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)
- Siegfried of Luxembourg, First Count of Luxembourg
- Siegfried Marcus, German-Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer
- Siegfried Selberherr, Austrian university professor and microelectronics scientist
- Siegfried Rauch, German film and television actor (1932-2018)
- Siegfried Buback, former Attorney General of Germany (1920-1977)
- Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (1872-1939)
- Siegfried Brietzke, East German rower
- Siegfried Grabner, Austrian snowboarder
- Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, German-born Dutch anatomist (1697-1770)
- Siegfried Müller, German mercenary (1920–1983)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.