In 2025, 7 US boys were named Sigmund, making it the 10,524th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,844 places from #7,680 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 11 boys named Sigmund in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #431, reached in 1912. The most boys given the name in a single year was 151, in 1918. For comparison, it was #9,441 in 2015 and #1,650 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sigmund in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 2,855 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 1,044 babies named Sigmund.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US boys were named Sigmund; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Zigmund, Zygmunt and Zygmund are summarised on this page.