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.[1] An alternative explanation of the feminine name is that it is the equivalent of the German name Sieglinde.[2] The form of the name was apparently influenced by the similar Gaulish element Sego- ("victory" or "strength").[3]

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French politician and former Presidential candidate Ségolène Royal

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Robert Ferguson, The Teutonic Name-system, Applied to the Family Names of France, England and Germany, 1864, pp. 109-110, 172
  3. ^ X. Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue Gauloise, 2003, p. 269