MEANING & HISTORY
What does Sigfredo mean?
Sigfredo is recorded as a form of German Siegfried. The older Germanic elements mean victory and peace.
Spanish-style adaptation supplies the ending o and a different spelling of the initial name element. The name belongs to a documented compound tradition rather than meaning victorious ruler. Its heroic associations do not establish an actual bearer’s character or accomplishments.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
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SpanishEtymology & source
Borrowed from German Siegfried, from Proto-Germanic *Segafriþuz, from *segaz (“victory, triumph”) + *friþuz (“peace, sanctuary”).
a male given name from German, equivalent to English Siegfried
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Sigfredo in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Sigfredo
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Sigfrido♂Victory and peace
- Wilfredo♂Desiring peace; Spanish form of Wilfred
- Alfredo♂Elf counsel
- Manfredo♂Man and peace
- Ricaredo·Cervantes’s literary form associated with Recaredo
- Siegfried·Victory and peace, in the Germanic name elements
- Winifredo·Winfred-family historical form: friend + peace
- Godofredo♂God or good, and peace
What rhymes with Sigfredo?
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Explore Sigfredo further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Sigfredo (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Sigfredo (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Behind the Name: siegfried (opens in a new tab)
Independent onomastic comparison and qualifications to the proposed origin.
- Wiktionary: Siegfried (opens in a new tab)
Explicit lexical or parent-name step in the described formation.