Sigmund

Where Sigmund comes from

Sigmund hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1856
    Sigmund Freud born
    Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
  2. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1912
    Peak, #428
    83 babies named Sigmund — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1925
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,091.
  5. 1937
    Sigmund Jähn born
    East German cosmonaut
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Sigmund Freud · Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis, 1856–1939
  • Sigmund Jähn · East German cosmonaut, 1937–2019
  • Sigmund Rascher · German Schutzstaffel doctor, 1909–1945
  • Sigmund Haringer · German footballer, 1908–1975
  • Sigmund Ruud · Norwegian ski jumper, 1907–1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.