Sigismund

Sigismund is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "victory" + "protection", recorded from the 5th century (Sigismund of Burgundy, –524) in the Kingdom of Burgundy. An older variant, Segimundus, was Latinized by Tacitus. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Austrian, German, Hungarian, and Polish-Lithuanian royal families.

The name is often confused with its cognates Sigmund and Siegmund. While Sigismund was derived from the East Germanic languages, particularly Burgundian or Gothic, the forms Siegmund and Sigmund trace their origins to the High German languages. In Slavic languages, the variants Zygmunt/Zikmund/Žigmund was adopted, notably in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and Polish. Other language variants of the name include Zsigmond in Hungarian, and also appeared in various forms across the Romance languages.