Sigrun
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sigrun is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from *sigi- 'victory' + *rūnō 'secret, rune'.
- ISIceland1 in 124◐
- NONorway1 in 2.5K
- FOFaroe Islands1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.7K ●
- Sources
- 61 ●
- 1 in 124 ◐
across 9 countries
1.6K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
from *sigi- 'victory' + *rūnō 'secret, rune'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #42 | 2,833△ | 221 rec. | 1 in 124 | 2.8K | Sigrun | 61 |
| NO Norway | #452 | 2,193△ | 693 rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 7.1K | Sigrun | 51 |
| SE Sweden | — | 248△ | 75 rec. | 1 in 41K | 248 | Sigrun | 15 |
| US United States | — | 236 | 478 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 236 | Sigrun | 54 |
| DK Denmark | — | 119△ | 38 rec. | 1 in 49K | 119 | Sigrun | 34 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #111 | 68 | 0 rec. | — | 63 | Sigrun | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 30 | 19 rec. | — | — | Sigrun | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 20 | 19 rec. | — | — | Sigrun | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 17 | 9 rec. | — | 20 | Sigrun | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 15 | — | 1 in 371K | 76 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 15△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 8 | — | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | — | — |
Roughly 2.8K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 124). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German12K36%
- Icelandic8.1K25%
- Norwegian Bokmål7.1K22%
- English2K6%
- Norwegian1.2K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 11,805 | 36% |
| Icelandic | 8,112 | 25% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 7,146 | 22% |
| English | 2,008 | 6% |
| Norwegian | 1,224 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1945 | 82 |
| 1946 | 63 |
| 1947 | 86 |
| 1948 | 78 |
| 1949 | 71 |
| 1950 | 86 |
| 1951 | 81 |
| 1952 | 68 |
| 1953 | 76 |
| 1954 | 77 |
| 1955 | 75 |
| 1956 | 63 |
| 1957 | 48 |
| 1958 | 62 |
| 1959 | 47 |
| 1960 | 46 |
| 1961 | 49 |
| 1962 | 37 |
| 1963 | 37 |
| 1964 | 37 |
| 1965 | 40 |
| 1966 | 50 |
| 1967 | 27 |
| 1968 | 40 |
| 1969 | 26 |
| 1970 | 24 |
| 1971 | 17 |
| 1972 | 26 |
| 1973 | 19 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 17 |
| 1976 | 21 |
| 1977 | 23 |
| 1978 | 15 |
| 1979 | 12 |
| 1980 | 23 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 16 |
| 1983 | 28 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 11 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 71 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 27 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 2026-09-12 data build · 238 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sigrun?
- We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Sigrun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sigrun have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.8 thousand people bear Sigrun in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records, 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 124 people carrying it.
- How common is Sigrun compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Sigrun is the 42nd most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Sigrun mean?
- Recorded meaning: from *sigi- 'victory' + *rūnō 'secret, rune'
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sigrun” — the 42nd most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.