Ségolène, also Sigolène or Sigolina, is a French name, now solely feminine but previously, in the forms Ségolène, Sigolin or Sigolinus, also occasionally masculine. It is derived from a diminutive of Siga, a mediaeval hypocoristic of Germanic names having the first element Sig- (meaning "victory"). The rarer masculine form of the name was derived in the same way from the masculine hypocoristic Sigo. An alternative explanation of the feminine name is that it is the equivalent of the German name Sieglinde. The form of the name was apparently influenced by the similar Gaulish element Sego- ("victory" or "strength").
People
Female
- Saint Segolena of Troclar otherwise Sigolena of Albi (7th century), French abbess and saint
- Ségolène Amiot (born 1986), French politician
- Ségolène Berger (born 1978), French tennis player
- Ségolène Girard (born 1995), Swiss volleyball player
- Ségolène Lefebvre (born 1993), French boxer
- Ségolène Royal (born 1953), French politician, partner of François Hollande
- Sigolène Vinson (born 1974), French writer and journalist, survivor of the Charlie Hebdo killings
Male
- Saint Sigolin of Stavelot (7th century), abbot of Stavelot Abbey
Places
- Sainte-Sigolène, commune in the Haute-Loire department, France
References
- Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Les noms de personnes sur le territoire de l’ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle, Paris, CNRS, t. I ("les noms issus du germanique continental et les créations gallo-germaniques"), 1968, pp. 197a–200a
- Robert Ferguson, The Teutonic Name-system, Applied to the Family Names of France, England and Germany, 1864, pp. 109-110, 172
- X. Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue Gauloise, 2003, p. 269