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 Zygmunt is most popular
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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Masovian65 boys born+129%
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Lesser Poland26 boys born+43%
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Podlaskie6 boys born+14%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian9 boys born+3%
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Lubusz4 boys born+1%
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West Pomeranian6 boys born−11%
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Greater Poland14 boys born−19%
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Lower Silesian10 boys born−21%
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Łódź8 boys born−21%
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Pomeranian8 boys born−32%
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Silesian11 boys born−40%
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Opole2 boys born−46%
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Lublin4 boys born−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