Entry № 9702 · Old Norse origin

Sigyn Sigyn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Loki's faithful wife (Norse goddess)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Norse)

A name that means "loki's faithful wife (norse goddess)".

Sigyn was the Norse goddess and wife of Loki — who, when Loki was bound in a cave with a venomous serpent dripping poison on his face, held a bowl over him to catch the venom, emptying it only when full, for all eternity.

Featured in the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda.

Loki's faithful wife.

The name in its native script.

Sigyn
Transliteration
Sigyn
Pronunciation
/ ˈsiː.ɡʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sigyn stands.

Sigyn does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sigyns before her.

Real people
Sigyn
Norse goddess.
In fiction
Sigyn
Featured in Marvel's Loki.

Names connected to Sigyn.

The number behind Sigyn.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sigyn reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.