Signe

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Signý in IS Iceland and Signé in CM Cameroon.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Signe is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name3.2K records spelled Signe7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Signé, Signè

• a separate given name874 records spelled Signe2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Also written Signé

• a separate given name873 records spelled Signe2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom

  Also written Signé

• Italian given name203 records spelled Signe2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway

  Also written Signé

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Signe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, to bless

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Signe är ett nordiskt namn, en sidoform till fornvästnordiskans Signý, sammansatt av → Sig- och -ný, den feminina formen av fornvästnordiskans nýr ’ny’. Det har varit bland de populäraste namnen de senaste årtiondena. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 23 augusti.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In German, weibl. Vom. nordischer Herkunft (alt­ nord. sigr »Sieg« + ny »neu, jung«).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Apacible

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In French, sign (indicator; indication; mathematical polarity)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 141 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Signe Hebbeb. 1837SEsinger (1837-1925)
• Signe Hornborgb. 1862FIFinnish architect (1862-1916)
• Signe Lundb. 1868NONorwegian-American composer
• Signe Bergmanb. 1869SESwedish suffragist, editor (1869-1960)
• Signe Hammarsten-Janssonb. 1882SESwedish artist (1882-1970)
• Signe Hassob. 1915SESwedish actress (1915–2002)
• Signe Toly Andersonb. 1941USAmerican singer (1941–2016)
• Isabella Lövinb. 1963SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician, writer and journalist
• Signe Byrge Sørensenb. 1970DKDanish film producer
• Signe Bruunb. 1998DKDanish footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 430 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Signe?

We estimate roughly 49 thousand people bear Signe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Signe have the most bearers?

We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Signe in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled signe.

Where is Signe most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Signe is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 415 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.

How common is Signe compared with other names?

In Sweden, Signe is the 326th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.

Is Signe a male or female name?

Signe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Signe mean?

Recorded meaning: a female given name from Old Norse