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Sigmund

#10,520 in 2025Boys' name

Victory + protection, through Siegmund

Sigmund has been given to 2,855 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #10,520 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Sigmund, 2025

1 in 474,000

Sigmund over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sigmund: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + protection, through Siegmund

Old High German and Old Norse

What Sigmund means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sigmund is used in German, Norwegian Nynorsk and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Old High German and Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Siegmund and Sigmundur.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Sigmund is pronounced /²sɪɡmʊn(d)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,855 boys were recorded with the name Sigmund between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 151 in 1918; its best national rank was #431 in 1912.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,817 in 2020 to #10,520 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,435 in 2015 to #10,520 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sigmund?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,520
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sigmund 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sigmund. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sigmunds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sigmund was born before 1922 — so the typical Sigmund is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
615
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1910s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (1,044).

Is Sigmund 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
−2,845
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,297
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,085
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.6%
Peak was 1918 (151)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#431
1912

Spellings of Sigmund

Sigmund is the most-used spelling, taking 63.0% of the 4,532 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Sigmund is used

Across 1910–2025, Sigmund was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 49,092 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Connecticut1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Sigmund has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sigmund around the world

Where Sigmund ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1922–1949
    #1,069
    in 1949
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #259
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1952–1958
    #433
    in 1958

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sigmund

People whose public names include Sigmund, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sigmund in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sigmund. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZygmuntSigismundŽigaSigmunnZikmundŽigmundSiegmundSigmundsZsigmondSigismondZigmundasSigismondoSigismundoSigismundus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sigmund by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,520
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,297
Best rank ever
#431
1912
Peak year
1918
151 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,855
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Sigmund

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

SigurdSigismundZigmundRaymundSigmondSigfredoSigifredoMukundEdmundZygmundDesmundRaymoundSigfredDezmundOsmundAsmundSigvardSigmuntSigfridSiggiTormundSigSigelRylund

Names with a curve like Sigmund

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sigmund, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sigmund

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

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