Signer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who signs something
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sajnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Signer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 817K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3.7K
- NLNetherlands1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,265 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who signs something.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Signer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #420 | 2,265 | 1 in 3.7K | 2.3K | Signer | 62 |
| US United States | — | 407 | 1 in 817K | 443 | Signer | 158 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Signer | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 520K | — | Signer | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 450K | 21 | Signer | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 99 | 1 in 175K | 99 | Signer | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Signer | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Signer | 3 |
2,265 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Signer 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 fro, to sign (put one's signature or one's seal on a document, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of signō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, to sign (put a signature on)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of signere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, personne qui ensorcèle
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rudolf Signerb. 1903CHSwiss organic chemist (1903-1990)
- Walter Signerb. 1910USAmerican baseball player (1910–1974)
- Peter Signerb. 1929CHSwiss physicist and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
- Walter Signerb. 1937CHcyclist
- Roman Signerb. 1938CHSwiss artist (born 1938)
- Stefan Signerb. 1951CHSwiss composer
- Marcus Signerb. 1964CHSwiss actor
- David Signerb. 1964CHSwiss writer
- Michael SignerUSAmerican lawyer and politician
- Dan SignerUSTelevision producer, television writer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 2.3K | #406 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 443 | #50,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 441 | #45,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 407 | #51,176 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 99 | #19,169 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 21 | #87,652 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Signer mean, and where does it come from?
- One who signs something. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Signer?
- A machine transcription gives /sajnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Signer have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Signer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled signer.
- Where is Signer most common?
- Signer is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Signer?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,265 people named Signer in 2024, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Signer compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Signer is the 420th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/signerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Signer” — the 420th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.