Sigismund

Boys' name

Victory + protection, through Siegmund

Sigismund has been given to 138 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Sigismund, 1927

1 in 290,000

Sigismund over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sigismund: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + protection, through Siegmund

Old High German

What Sigismund means

Sigismund belongs to the name family reached through Sigismund → Siegmund. Its meaning is “victory + protection”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sigismund is used in German. Its origins include Old High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Siegmund.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 138 boys were recorded with the name Sigismund between 1915 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,877 in 1920.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Sigismund?

Sigismund had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927: 1 in 290,000; 8 of 2,319,281 births
Among boys only: 1 in 141,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1927: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 200,952 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Sigismund sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1927 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 200,952 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sigismund. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sigismunds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sigismund was born before 1920 — so the typical Sigismund is around 105 today.

Median birth year: 1920; About 105 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 58.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 58.0% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Sigismund rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1920 (19)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,877; 1920

Spellings of Sigismund

Sigismund is not the most common spelling — Sigmund is, with 95.4% against Sigismund's 4.6%.

Sigmund95.4%2,855
Sigismund4.6%138

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sigismund is used

Across 1910–2025, Sigismund was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,208,538 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New Jersey1 in —
2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sigismund has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sigismund by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,877; 1920
Peak year: 1920; 19 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1927
All-time count: 138
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Sigismund

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sigmund Sigifredo Sigfredo Sigmond Raymound Mukund Sigurd Desmund Zygmund Zigmund Sigfred Dezmund Osmund Sigfrido Raymund Asmund Sigvard Sigmunt Sigfrid Siggi Tormund Sig Sigel Rylund

Sibling names for Sigismund

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Norine Vina Mozelle Marcelle Oleta Adella Mittie Melvina

For a brother

Junius Dock Rupert Orin Otha Hilton Casimir Edd

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