Sigmund
Sigmund was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,520 among boys’ names; 2,855 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sigmund by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sigmund mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Sigmund is “a male given name from Old High German, variant of Siegmund”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sigmund?
#10,520 among boys’ names, 2025
Sigmund fell from #9,435 in 2015 to #10,520 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
151 babies in 1918, the peak
Sigmund peaked in 1918, when 151 boys were given it, #486 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,520 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,675 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,640 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,203 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,615 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,817 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,067 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,050 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,071 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,435 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,490 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,561 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,039 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,577 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #14,080 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,783 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,044 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,760 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,056 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,128 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,403 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,346 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,120 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,919 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,148 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,775 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,429 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,299 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,285 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,064 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,616 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,249 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,621 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,179 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,081 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,781 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,750 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,694 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,962 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,649 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,606 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 23 | #1,592 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,844 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,619 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,272 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,526 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,336 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,413 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,462 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,195 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 50 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 41 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 72 | #796 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 59 | #892 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 80 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1921 | 96 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 121 | #567 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 118 | #554 | 0.12 |
| 1918 | 151 | #486 | 0.15 |
| 1917 | 149 | #469 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 150 | #467 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 139 | #469 | 0.16 |
| 1914 | 118 | #445 | 0.18 |
| 1913 | 78 | #496 | 0.15 |
| 1912 | 83 | #431 | 0.19 |
| 1911 | 34 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1910 | 24 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 19 | #633 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 18 | #627 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 12 | #807 | 0.08 |
| 1906 | 12 | #748 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 18 | #567 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 10 | #805 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,193 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,477 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,103 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,205 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 11 | #718 | 0.09 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,104 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,088 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sigmund a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sigmund has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sigmund: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sigmund, and how old are they?
An estimated 637 Americans named Sigmund and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 29 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 886 people named Sigmund (7 women and girls, 879 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sigmund born?
The states with the most babies named Sigmund are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 557 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 212 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 196 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 183 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 76 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 54 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 44 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Connecticut | 40 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Maryland | 9 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Sigmund is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sigmund is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sigmund with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,992 babies since 1880, Sigmund is the most given (95% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sigmund
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sigmund and names like it
- Compare Sigmund and SigmondBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sSigmund peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sigmund since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Sigmund.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sigmund alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.