Signy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Signe in DK Denmark, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 21 more, 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 7 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◐

Signy is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name841 records spelled Signy6 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Signý

• a separate given name65 records spelled Signy2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway

  Also written Signý

• Finnish given name51 records spelled Signy3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Also written Signý

36 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●

Signy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Scandinavian: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of the elements sigr victory + ný new. Variants: Signi, Signe .

  as a word

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●

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 35 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Signy Arctanderb. 1895NONorwegian statistician and economist (1895-1971)
• Signy Wennerholmb. 1907NONorwegian tennis player
• Signy Colemanb. 1960USAmerican actress
• Signy Fardalb. 1961NONorwegian journalist and editor
• Signy Aarnab. 1990EEEstonian football player (born 1990)

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 · 231 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Signy?

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

In which country does Signy have the most bearers?

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

Where is Signy most common?

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

How common is Signy compared with other names?

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

Is Signy a male or female name?

Signy 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 Signy mean?

Recorded meaning: SHYLOH---