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Girl · Old Norse
Sigrid
Say it: SIG-rid
Meaning
From Old Norse sigr 'victory' and fríðr 'beautiful, beloved'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Recorded on runestones and in the sagas, and a steady favourite in Norway and Sweden ever since.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 2,907 babies given this name since 1886
- At its height in 1893, about 1 in 8,500 girls
- 36 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Sigri
| Old Norse | Sigríðr |
|---|---|
| Icelandic | Sigríður |
| Finnish | Siiri |
Famous bearers
- Sigrid the Haughty, semi-legendary queen in the kings' sagas
- Sigrid Undset, Norwegian Nobel-winning novelist
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Where this comes from
- Viking Age runestone inscriptions
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.