Sigrid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From an Old Norse female personal name derived from sigr ‘victory’ + fridr ‘fair’, ‘beautiful’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ziːɡʁiːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sigrid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 626(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 746
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 626 (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From an Old Norse female personal name derived from sigr ‘victory’ + fridr ‘fair’, ‘beautiful’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sigrid is read(measured from records)
Sigrid is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German54%
weibl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft (altnord, sigr »Sieg« + fiid r »schön«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English23%
legendary Scandinavian hero
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Sigurd [Sigurd]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sigrid in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sigrid counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #264 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Sigrid | 191 |
| SE Sweden | #450 | 16,292 | 1 in 626 | 16K | Sigrid | 66 |
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Sigrid | 9 |
| NO Norway | #299 | 7,327 | 1 in 746 | 25K | Sigrid | 87 |
| AT Austria | #297 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 570 | Sigrid | 98 |
| DK Denmark | #520 | 3,399 | 1 in 1.7K | 3.4K | Sigrid | 88 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 899 | Sigrid | 24 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sigrid is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From an Old Norse female personal name derived from sigr ‘victory’ + fridr ‘fair’, ‘beautiful’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Forme dérivée de Sigrade; origine germanique, « victoire du chevalier ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Scandinave, sig « victoire » + fríðr « belle, paix ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sigrid the Haughtyb. 968SEViking Queen
- Princess Sigrid of Swedenb. 1566SESwedish princess (1566-1633)
- Sigrid Undsetb. 1882NONorwegian writer (1882–1949)
- Sigrid Hjerténb. 1885SESwedish modernist painter (1885-1948)
- Sigrid Nunezb. 1951USAmerican writer (1951-)
- Sigrid Thorntonb. 1959AUAustralian actress
- Sigrid Kaagb. 1961NLDutch diplomat and politician
- Sigrid Alegríab. 1974CLChilean television actress
- Li Anderssonb. 1987FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Sigridb. 1996NONorwegian singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 25K | #175 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16K | #268 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 7.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 6.3K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3.4K | #176 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 899 | #180 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 570 | #727 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 143 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 5 | #814 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1944 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sigrid mean, and where does it come from?
- From an Old Norse female personal name derived from sigr ‘victory’ + fridr ‘fair’, ‘beautiful’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Sigrid?
- A machine transcription gives /ziːɡʁiːt/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Sigrid a male or female name?
- Sigrid is a female 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 are other forms of the name Sigrid?
- In the etymology graph, Siri and Sigfrid are forms of the same name in other languages; Siiri is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Sigrid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Sigrid in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sigrid.
- Where is Sigrid most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sigrid is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 626 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sigrid?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16,292 people named Sigrid, about 1 in 626 residents.
- How common is Sigrid compared with other names?
- In Germany, Sigrid is the 264th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sigrid?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sigridThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sigrid” — the 264th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.