Given name & surname · also Germanic
Sigmund
“the victorious protector”
Sigmund is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “the victorious protector.”
Original GermanSiegmund
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “the victorious protector.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
Its Germanic formation brings together sige (“victory”) and mund (“protector”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1886. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sigmund through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,855
- 2,855 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 151 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,524 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +33%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,524 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 151 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 886 as a first name in 2020; 1,443 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sigmund’s family of names
Sigmund shares a linguistic root with Zygmunt. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Sigmund has a related form in Simon. In English usage, Sigmund has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Zygmunt.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Sigmund has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
9 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 15
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Zygmuntcognate · Polish
- Zigmundsequivalent
- Zikmundequivalent
- Žigmundequivalent
- Sigmundurequivalent
- ЗигмундRussian
- Сигмундborrowing · Serbo-Croatian
- Zsigmondrelated form
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People named Sigmund
- Sigmund FreudAustrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
- Sigmund JähnEast German cosmonaut (1937–2019)
- Wilhelm ListGerman field marshal (1880–1971)
- Jackie JacksonAmerican singerborn 1951
- Sigismund of Burgundyking of the Burgundians475–524
- Sigmund RombergHungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
- Sigmund RascherGerman Schutzstaffel doctor (1909–1945)
- Sigmund HaringerGerman footballer (1908-1975)
- Sigmund RuudNorwegian ski jumper (1907–1994)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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