Sigmund
Sigmund is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 431st, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918151 births
- Best rank
- #431in 1912
- Since 1886
- 2,848people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,848 boys have been named Sigmund in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 151 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 151 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 37%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Sigmund | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 32 | |
| 1900s | 99 | |
| 1910s | 1,044 | |
| 1920s | 623 | |
| 1930s | 230 | |
| 1940s | 207 | |
| 1950s | 161 | |
| 1960s | 105 | |
| 1970s | 135 | |
| 1980s | 29 | |
| 1990s | 37 | |
| 2000s | 28 | |
| 2010s | 66 | |
| 2020s | 47 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Sigmund was the 486th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Sigmund
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hymanpeak 1916
- Casimerpeak 1918
- Isidorepeak 1919
- Myerpeak 1918
- Meyerpeak 1917
- Casimirpeak 1919
- Attiliopeak 1916
- Pasqualepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.