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Sig

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; German origin

Sig has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1911. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sig, 2020

1 in 477,000

Sig over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sig: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; German origin

German

What Sig means

Sig is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sig is used in English and Catalan. Its origins include German.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 50 boys were recorded with the name Sig between 1911 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,962 in 1911.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sig?

Sig had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sig sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sig. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sigs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sig was born before 1942 — so the typical Sig is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
38.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Sig rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (8)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#1,962
1911

Sig by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,962
1911
Peak year
1915
8 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sig

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SiggiSigelSigleSigurdSigfredSigmondSigvardSigmuntSigfridSigfredoSigismundSigmundSigfridoSigifredo

Sibling names for Sig

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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