# Sigmund (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sigmund/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,855 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,855 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | 14,307 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,584 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12,046 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,566 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,496 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,441 |
| 2016 | 10 | 8,076 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,054 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8,071 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,823 |
| 2021 | 13 | 6,620 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,208 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,645 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,680 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,524 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Sigmund

- Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
- Sigmund Jähn, East German cosmonaut (1937–2019)
- Sigmund Haringer, German footballer (1908-1975)
- Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Austro-Hungarian politician (1824-1899)
- Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian marshall
- Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist (1845–1919)
- Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (1846–1926)
- Sigmund Gottlieb Staden, German composer
- Sigmund Neumann, German academic (1904-1962)
- Sigmund Lebert, composer (1821–1884)
- Sigmund Feist, German linguist (1865–1943)
- Sigmund Fugger von Kirchberg und Weißenhorn, bishop of Regensburg (1542-1600)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.