Signe

Where Signe comes from

Signe hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #498
    30 babies named Signe — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,497.
  4. 1941
    Signe Toly Anderson born
    American singer
  5. 1957
    Signe Kivi born
    Estonian politician and textile artist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Signe Toly Anderson · American singer, 1941–2016
  • Signe Kivi · Estonian politician and textile artist, born 1957
  • Signe Bruun · Danish footballer, born 1998
  • Signe Hasso · Swedish actress, 1915–2002
  • Signe Hornborg · Finnish architect, 1862–1916

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.