Sigurd is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning “the dragon-scaled.” In 2024 it was given to 10 boys in the United States.
Sigurd at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
“the dragon-scaled”
About the name Sigurd
Sigurd belongs to the Scandinavian tradition. Its meaning — “the dragon-scaled” — is the sense carried by its Scandinavian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Sigurd first appears in Social Security records in 1890. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #757 in 1891, and in 2024 10 babies received the name — 853 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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