Žygas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Galbūt sudurtinė pvd.: Žy-gaudas
Žygas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 104K
- PLPoland1 in 56Kas Sieg
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Žygas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,996 named Sieg, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zygas in US United States, AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Galbūt sudurtinė pvd.: Žy-gaudas. Dėl žy- žr. Žymantas, dėl gaud- — Gedgaudas
Cited for this meaning 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Žygas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,996as Sieg | 1 in 167K | 2K | Zygas | 35 |
| PL Poland | 678as Sieg | 1 in 56K | 351 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 470as Sieg | 1 in 450K | 470 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Zygas | 3 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Žygas | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 41as Sieg | 1 in 143K | 41 | — | — |
1,996 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling sieg. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Žygas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, Žygas Žygaudas ŽYGAUDAS Klp 2 (of. Sziegaud), Pgg 15 (of. Sziegaud, Sziegaud), Prn (18). Galbūt sudurtinė pvd.: Žy-gaudas. Dėl žy- žr. Žymantas, dėl gaud- — Gėdgaudas.
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Žygas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Galbūt sudurtinė pvd.: Žy-gaudas.
- In which country does Žygas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Sieg, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Žygas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,996 people named Sieg in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%BEygasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Žygas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.