Zygmunta
The feminine counterpart of Zygmunt, worn by just 54 women in Poland and given to no newborn girls in over two decades. Germanic at root, built from words for "victory" and "protection", so most Poles have never met one.
Zygmunta Pronunciation
Zygmunta is pronounced zihg-MOON-tah (/zɨgˈmunta/).
What Zygmunta means
Where Zygmunta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zygmunta is the feminine of Zygmunt, and its parts come from Germanic roots. Old Germanic sigu meant victory, and mund meant protection or the hand that guards. Put together they give the short meaning this name still carries: victory protection, or in Polish zwycięstwo i ochrona.
The masculine Zygmunt wears a crown in Polish memory. Three kings of the Jagiellonian line bore it: Zygmunt I the Old, Zygmunt II August, Zygmunt III Waza. Zygmunta stands beside that lineage as its cross-gender form, rarer, and shaped from the same two ideas of triumph and shelter.
She is a name you meet on paper more than in a crowd. Picture a school register where Zygmunta sits alone in its column, the only one in the class. On an official form at the urząd, the ending gives her away as feminine at a glance.
Short and plain. The victory in the name is not a battle won but a promise held, and the protection is right there in the second half, mund, the guarding hand from which Zygmunta and Zygmunt both descend.
When Zygmunta celebrates name day
Zygmunta appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 2 May.
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 Zygmunta
1 in 417478 women in Poland is named Zygmunta. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5118 among female names.
Zygmunta as a middle name
Zygmunta is a first name for 54 women in Poland and a middle name for another 44, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1041st, between Skye (44) and Agustina (43).
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#1039 Sky44
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#1040 Skye44
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#1041 Zygmunta44
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#1042 Agustina43
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#1043 Basia43