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Sigifredo vs Sigurd

American parents have registered 869 Sigurds since 1880, against 527 Sigifredos. Sigurd is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sigifredo against Sigurd, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sigifredo Sigurd

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 121 years in which either name was published, Sigurd for 77 years and Sigifredo for 44 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Sigifredo Sigurd
Total US births 527869
Most in one year 1931
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 470290
Median age today 3524
Peak year 19981916
Best rank 3,708th boys1,176th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,608th
First recorded 19241890
Girls / boys 0 / 5270 / 869

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sigifredos alive today are over 35; half the Sigurds are over 24. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sigifredo and Sigurd.