Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Sieglinde
/ZEEG · lin · deh/
Meaning
“Victory gentle”
Old High German name meaning 'victory gentle' from sieg and linde; best known as the tragic heroine in Wagner's Die Walkure.
Nicknames
sigi · linde
Vibe
strongelegant
How it ages.
Deeply archaic; beloved by Wagnerians but almost unused in modern German-speaking countries.
The cultural moment.
Rare in Germany since the 1960s; virtually unused today.