Entry № 9675 · Old Norse origin

Sif Sif — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Bride, kin, affinity"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "bride, kin, affinity".

Sif is the Norse goddess of fertility, the harvest, and family — the wife of Thor. Her golden hair was said to represent the wheat fields; when Loki cut it off, the dwarves crafted her replacement strands of pure gold.

Sif is rare as a given name but rising — propelled in part by the Marvel character Sif (played by Jaimie Alexander in the Thor films).

Wife of Thor. Goddess of golden harvest.

The name in its native script.

Sif
Transliteration
Sif
Pronunciation
/ sɪf /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sif stands.

Sif does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sifs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Lady Sif
Marvel character.
Marvel Comics, 1964 onward

Names connected to Sif.

The number behind Sif.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sif reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.