Signes
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular present subjunctive of signar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/siɣnes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Signes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 33K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 217K
- FRFrance≈1 in 334K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,500 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular present subjunctive of signar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Signes is read(measured from records)
Signes is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish70%
second-person singular present subjunctive of signar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Signes in French.
- Catalan12%
second-person singular present indicative of signar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Signes in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Signes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,500 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Signes | 95 |
| AR Argentina | 210 | 1 in 217K | 210 | Signes | 32 |
| FR France | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 334K | 28 | Signes | 106 |
| US United States | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Signes | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 40 | 1 in 5.3M | 40 | Signes | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Signes | 12 |
1,500 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Signes 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.
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of signō
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emil Signesb. 1940USAmerican rugby union coach
- Rogelio Ramos Signesb. 1950ARArgentine storyteller
- Josep Francesc Signes Costab. 1970ESSpanish politician
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #3,108 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #3,105 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 210 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Signes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of signar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Signes?
- A machine transcription gives /siɣnes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Signes have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Signes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled signes.
- Where is Signes most common?
- Signes is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Signes?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,500 people named Signes, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Signes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/signesThe 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, “Signes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.