Entry № 9693 · French origin

Sigourney Sigourney — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sih-GOR-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Conqueror (Sigourney Weaver, Alien franchise icon)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "conqueror (sigourney weaver, alien franchise icon)".

Sigourney is a 20th-century American invention — chosen by actress Susan Alexandra Weaver as her stage name at age 14, taken from the character Sigourney Howard in The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Yale School of Drama (MFA, 1974).

Subject of countless science-fiction histories.

Conqueror (Sigourney Weaver, Alien franchise icon) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Sigourney
Transliteration
Sigourney
Pronunciation
/ sɪˈɡɔːr.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sigourney stands.

Sigourney 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.

Sigourneys before her.

Real people
Sigourney Weaver
American actress.
born 1949
In fiction
Ellen Ripley
Alien.
1979
Sigourney Howard
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
1925

Names connected to Sigourney.

The number behind Sigourney.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sigourney reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.