Sigrist
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: sacristan/church sexton; bearer count not stated on this page
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈziːɡʁɪst/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Sigrist is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 358K
- BRBrazil1 in 553K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
3,634 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Occupational surname: sacristan/church sexton; bearer count not stated on this page.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sigrist 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,634 | 1 in 2.3K | 3.6K | Sigrist | 40 |
| US United States | — | 928 | 1 in 358K | 937 | Sigrist | 212 |
| BR Brazil | — | 383 | 1 in 553K | 383 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 49 | 1 in 928K | 49 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | #319 | — | — | — | Sigrist | 2 |
3,634 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)Sigrist 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 German, sexton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname für den Kirchendiener/Küster; aus mhd. sigrist(e) < mlat. sacristanus, zu sacristia 'Sakristei'. 176 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: 'Kirchendiener/Küster' (schweiz./alem.). Belegt mit Bearer-Counts (u.a. 10+28; 1755+1821).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, < mlat. sacrista "Küster". Sieg| (e)rist, eris, riß, Sig | erist, riz
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from MLat. sacrista 'sacristan, sexton'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Franz Sigristb. 1727DEAustrian painter (1727-1803)
- Gabrielle Dorziatb. 1880FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1880-1979)
- Joseph Sigristb. 1885FRFrench politician (1885–1976)
- Christian Sigristb. 1935DEGerman ethnologist and sociologist (1935–2015)
- Gilbert Sigristb. 1938FRFrench pianist
- Kurt Sigristb. 1943CHSwiss sculptor (born 1943)
- Ernst C. Sigristb. 1956CHSwiss actor
- Séverine Sigristb. 1973FRFrench cellular biologist and neuroscientist
- Frédérick Sigristb. 1977FRFrench comedian
- Bruno Sigristb. 1988BRBrazilian actor
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)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3.6K | #187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 937 | #27,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 928 | #26,313 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 909 | #25,524 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 383 | #21,528 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 49 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #85,171 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #39,746 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Sigrist mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: sacristan/church sexton; bearer count not stated on this page. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Sigrist?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈziːɡʁɪst/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /sjɡɾist/; in Portuguese /ziɡɾiʃt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sigrist have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Sigrist, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sigrist.
- Where is Sigrist most common?
- Sigrist is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sigrist?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,634 people named Sigrist in 2024, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sigrist compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Sigrist is the 319th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sigristThe 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, “Sigrist” — the 319th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.