Meaning and history
Sigmund is derived from the Old German elements sigu, meaning “victory,” and munt, meaning “protection,” or in the Scandinavian cognate, from Old Norse sigr and mundr. An early form, Sigismund, was borne by a 6th-century saint and king of the Burgundians. In the Norse Völsungasaga, Sigmund is the father of the hero Sigurd and the bearer of the sword Gram. A well-known bearer was the Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), founder of psychoanalysis.
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: 5 births, rank #12,367
2008: 5 births, rank #12,553
2009: no US SSA record for this spelling
2010: 7 births, rank #9,693
20112011: 6 births, rank #10,808
2012: no US SSA record for this spelling
2013: 7 births, rank #9,655
2014: 8 births, rank #8,781
2015: 8 births, rank #8,744
20162016: 10 births, rank #7,605
2017: 10 births, rank #7,546
2018: 10 births, rank #7,617
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: 6 births, rank #10,605
20212021: 13 births, rank #6,335
2022: 10 births, rank #7,768
2023: 7 births, rank #9,763
2024: 11 births, rank #7,257
20252025: 7 births, rank #9,714
Sigmund moved from #796 to #979 for boys between 1924 and 1926. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 151 births.