Sigo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: short form from a Germanic Sig- name, usually 'victory'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/siɡoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sigo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 127K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland≈1 in 278K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 395K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)short form from a Germanic Sig- name, usually 'victory'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sigo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Sigo | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Sigo | 5 |
| US United States | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 138 | Sigo | 70 |
| IN India | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 2 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Sigo | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 853K | — | Sigo | 6 |
| FI Finland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 278K | 10 | Sigo | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 14 | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | 3 |
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 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Sigo 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.
In Spanish, first-person singular present indicative of seguir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, alternative form of ysigo (“to sprain”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mtt, a kingfisher; a bird of a sacred character
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mtt, kingfish, a bird of a sacred character
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, fit; suitable; proper
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)Evidence
(measured from records)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 138 | #129,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 129 | #131,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #59,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Sigo mean, and where does it come from?
- short form from a Germanic Sig- name, usually 'victory' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Sigo?
- A machine transcription gives /siɡoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sigo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 337 people named Sigo in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sigo.
- How common is the name Sigo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 129 people named Sigo in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 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/sigoThe 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, “Sigo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.