Zygmunt
Around 48,000 Polish men carry it, but fewer boys get it with each passing year. A Slavic name meaning "victorious protector".
Zygmunt Pronunciation
Zygmunt is pronounced ZIHG-moont (/ˈzɨgmunt/).
What Zygmunt means
Where Zygmunt comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zygmunt gathers two old ideas: victory and the shelter a protector gives. The short meaning in English is victorious protector, and Poles say zwycięski obrońca. That reading sits behind every bearer who has carried it.
Poland gave the name to its kings. Zygmunt I, remembered as Zygmunt Stary, the Old, ruled through the first half of the sixteenth century, and the great bell hung in Wawel Cathedral in 1520 took his name. In Warsaw, the Sigismund Column honors Zygmunt III Waza above the old town. A boy named Zygmunt walks past that history without needing to know it.
The name is not soft. It keeps its hard consonants, and it does not shorten easily. On a class register or an official form at the urząd it stands full and complete, no diminutive smoothing it down. Its name day falls on the second of May.
Say the meaning once more. Victorious protector, zwycięski obrońca.
When Zygmunt celebrates name day
Zygmunt appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 2 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Zygmunt
1 in 441 men in Poland is named Zygmunt. 48,436 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #195 among male names.
Zygmunt's popularity over time
26 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #471 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005. Still the #195 name among living men, even as it slips to #471 among newborns.
Where parents choose Zygmunt
Zygmunt is most popular in Masovian, 129% above the national average (65 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+43%) and Podlaskie (+14%). It is least common in Lublin and Opole, 51% and 46% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+129%1 in 5,450 babies
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Lesser Poland
+43%1 in 8,728 babies
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Podlaskie
+14%1 in 10,964 babies
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Lublin
−51%1 in 25,669 babies
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Opole
−46%1 in 23,048 babies
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Silesian
−40%1 in 20,689 babies
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Masovian+129% 65 born1 in 5,450 babies+129%
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Lesser Poland+43% 26 born1 in 8,728 babies+43%
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Podlaskie+14% 6 born1 in 10,964 babies+14%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+3% 9 born1 in 12,153 babies+3%
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Lubusz+1% 4 born1 in 12,414 babies+1%
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West Pomeranian−11% 6 born1 in 14,071 babies−11%
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Greater Poland−19% 14 born1 in 15,375 babies−19%
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Lower Silesian−21% 10 born1 in 15,713 babies−21%
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Łódź−21% 8 born1 in 15,840 babies−21%
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Pomeranian−32% 8 born1 in 18,415 babies−32%
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Silesian−40% 11 born1 in 20,689 babies−40%
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Opole−46% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies−46%
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Lublin−51% 4 born1 in 25,669 babies−51%
Zygmunt as a middle name
Zygmunt is a first name for 48,436 men in Poland and a middle name for another 45,511, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 62nd, between Przemysław (45,598) and Konrad (43,041).
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#60 Wiktor46,809
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#61 Przemysław45,598
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#62 Zygmunt45,511
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#63 Konrad43,041
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#64 Sylwester42,312