Sigournay

English

Etymology

Variant of Sigourney.

Proper noun

Sigournay (plural Sigournays)

1. A surname.

Usage notes

The surname emanates from Sigournais, an ancient village in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. First recorded as Sigournay in the eleventh century. Huguenots with this surname first migrated to England and then to Boston, America where the name became Sigourney.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sigournay is the 60528^th most common surname in England, belonging to 41 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sigournay”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.