Signa

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Signa has been given to 411 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1916, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Signa, 1993

1 in 628,000

Signa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Signa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Signa means

Signa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Signa is used in Faroese and Icelandic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Signa is pronounced [ˈsɪkna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 411 girls were recorded with the name Signa between 1889 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1916; its best national rank was #901 in 1892.

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.

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How common is Signa?

Signa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 628,000; 6 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 301,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 435,382 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Signa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 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 435,382 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Signa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Signas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Signa was born before 1918 — so the typical Signa is around 107 today.

Median birth year: 1918; About 107 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 63; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Signa 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: —; 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 1916 (14)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #901; 1892

Spellings of Signa

Signa is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 26.8% against Signa's 0.03%.

Diana26.8%368,487
Tina21.3%292,146
Gina11.2%153,057
Nina9.7%133,788
Sienna2.9%39,877
Ina2.5%34,074
Fiona2.5%33,959
Dina2.3%32,021

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Signa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #901; 1892
Peak year: 1916; 14 that year
First recorded: 1889
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 411
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Signa

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

Digna Signe Reigna Sigrid Sigourney Ragna Legna Sigal Signy Signora Pragna Sigrun Alegna Benigna Migna Jigna Megna Aagna Abhigna Regna Ariagna Agna Manogna

Sibling names for Signa

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

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Meyer Gustave

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