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Signe

#11,785 in 2025Girls' name

Victory + new, through Signý

Signe has been given to 3,003 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #11,785 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Signe, 2025

1 in 414,000

Signe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Signe: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + new, through Signý

Old Norse

What Signe means

Signe belongs to the name family reached through Signe → Signý. Its meaning is “victory + new”.

Origin, language, and formation

Signe is used in Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Signe comes through Old Norse Signý.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Signý.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Signe is pronounced /ˈsiɡne/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,003 girls were recorded with the name Signe between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1915; its best national rank was #502 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,598 in 2020 to #11,785 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,635 in 2015 to #11,785 in 2025.

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 Signe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,785
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Signe 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Signe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Signes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Signe was born before 1946 — so the typical Signe is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
15.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,350
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 15.1% of all recorded uses (454).

Is Signe 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
−5,177
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,187
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,150
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.9%
Peak was 1915 (67)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#502
1892

Spellings of Signe

Signe is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 79.0% against Signe's 0.46%.

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.

Where Signe is used

Across 1910–2025, Signe was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 112,999 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 25,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 100,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Signe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Signe around the world

Where Signe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2016
    #4,763
    in 2016
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #41
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Signe

People whose public names include Signe, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Signe in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Signe. Linked forms have their own page here.

SignySigný

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Signe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,785
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,187
Best rank ever
#502
1892
Peak year
1915
67 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,003
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Signe

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

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Names with a curve like Signe

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Signe, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Signe

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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