Sigrun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from *sigi- 'victory' + *rūnō 'secret, rune'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈzɪgɾun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sigrun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. In Faroe Islands it is the 92nd most common given name.
- NONorway1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 146
- ATAustria≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (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
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from *sigi- 'victory' + *rūnō 'secret, rune'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sigrun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #273 | 2,409 | 1 in 146 | 2.6K | Sigrun | 70 |
| NO Norway | #654 | 2,193 | 1 in 2.5K | 7.1K | Sigrun | 59 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 66 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 248 | 1 in 41K | 248 | Sigrun | 21 |
| US United States | — | 236 | 1 in 1.4M | 236 | Sigrun | 57 |
| DK Denmark | — | 119 | 1 in 49K | 119 | Sigrun | 31 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #92 | — | — | 63 | Sigrun | 5 |
2,409 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026, counting the spelling sigrún. 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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024). 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)
Sigrun is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Victoria secreta
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of the elements sigr victory + r n secret lore. The name was borne in Scandinavian mythology by one of the Valkyries, and was revived as a given name in the late 18th century.
as a word
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
- 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
- Sigrun Andradottirb. 1965USPh.D. Stanford University 1990
- Sigrun Köhlerb. 1967DEGerman director, film producer, film editor and cinematographer
- Sigrun Gjerløw Aaslandb. 1978NONorwegian politician
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
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
- What does the name Sigrun mean, and where does it come from?
- from *sigi- 'victory' + *rūnō 'secret, rune' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How common is the name Sigrun?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 2,409 people named Sigrun in 2026, about 1 in 146 residents.
- How common is Sigrun compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Sigrun is the 273rd most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Sigrun?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈzɪgɾun/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Sigrun a male or female name?
- Sigrun 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 Sigrun have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Sigrun, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sigrun.
- Where is Sigrun most common?
- Sigrun is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 146 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Sigrun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sigrunThe 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, “Sigrun” — the 273rd most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.