Sigrún
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪɣrun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sigrún is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 146
- NONorway1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 146 (inferred from the name graph)
2,409 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sigrun in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sigrún 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.
2,409 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Sigrún 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 non, victory rune; a rune thought to have been imbued with a magical power to grant victory
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sigrun Krokvikb. 1932NONorwegian writer
- Sigrun Löwischb. 1942DEGerman politician
- Sigrún Magnúsdóttirb. 1944ISIcelandic politician
- Sigrun Hoelb. 1951NONorwegian jurist
- Sigrun Slapgardb. 1953NONorwegian journalist
- Siegrun Sieglb. 1954DEnot in their usual nameEast German athlete
- Sigrun Krauseb. 1954DEEast German cross-country skier
- Sigrun Wodarsb. 1965DEEast German middle distance runner
- Sigrún Eðvaldsdóttirb. 1967Icelandic violinist
- Sigrun Köhlerb. 1967DEGerman director, film producer, film editor and cinematographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 2.6K | #7 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 2.5K | #7 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2.4K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 46 | #2,723 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,803 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 12 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Sigrún?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɣrun/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Sigrún a male or female name?
- Sigrún is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sigrún have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Sigrún, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sigrún most common?
- Sigrún is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 146 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sigrún?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 2,409 people named Sigrún in 2026, about 1 in 146 residents.
What do you want to know about Sigrún?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sigr%C3%BAnThe 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, “Sigrún”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.