First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From German Siegfried, from Old High German sigu (“victory”) + fridu (“peace”).
Zigfrīds m
- a male given name
- A respelling of the German male given name Siegfried.
- Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Zigfrīds was the only given name of 398 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.