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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian : patronymic from the personal name Sivert. In Norwegian and Danish the name is from Sigvard, a form of Old Norse Sigurðr, from sigr ‘victory’ + varðr ‘guardian’; in Dutch it may have been an equivalent of Siegfried.

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