Girl · Old Norse
Signe
Say it: SIG-neh
Meaning
From Old Norse Signý: sigr 'victory' and ný 'new'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A legendary name that became common in Denmark and Norway in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1890s
In the United States
- 2,927 babies given this name since 1884
- At its height in 1892, about 1 in 7,100 girls
- 18 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Signy
| Icelandic | Signý |
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Famous bearers
- Signý, twin sister of Sigmund in Völsunga saga
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Where this comes from
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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