Sige
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from sigē 'silence'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sidʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sige is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 620K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- CLChile≈1 in 7M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 620K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Sigé in FR France.
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)
- Middle Englishsilence(inferred from the name graph)via 'silence'
- Latinsilentium“silence”(inferred from the name graph)via 'silence'
- Latin rootsilēns“quiet“quiet, silent”(inferred from the name graph)via 'silence'
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
from sigē 'silence'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sige 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 620K | 8 | Sigé | 63 |
| IN India | 87 | 1 in 15M | 87 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 1 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Sige is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
silicon germanide, silicon germanium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, to sag, sink, slide
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btx, kind of small crab
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Ganda, eyebrow
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In ang, 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.
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 163 | #16,308 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 87 | #31,136 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 33 | #1,177 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 12 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Sige mean, and where does it come from?
- from sigē 'silence' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Sige?
- A machine transcription gives /sidʒ/ (IPA) for Amharic.
- Is Sige a male or female name?
- Sige is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sige have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 people named Sige in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sigé.
- How common is the name Sige?
- In India, the national register counted 87 people named Sige, about 1 in 15 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sigeThe 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, “Sige”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.