Signo

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: sign, indication

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Signo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 101K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 258K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

sign, indication

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Signo is read(measured from records)

Signo 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.

  • English49%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Signo in English.

  • Spanish25%

    sign, indication

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)5.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Signo in French (Côte d’Ivoire).

  • Portuguese5.4%

    sign of the zodiac

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Signo 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.

Where Signo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈1,500 est.≈1 in 71K—Signo36
ID Indonesia≈830 est.≈1 in 323K—Signo3
CI Côte d’Ivoire≈270 est.≈1 in 101K539——
IT Italy≈240 est.≈1 in 258K—Signo5
US United States≈110 est.≈1 in 3.1MlistedSigno71
AR Argentina471 in 968K47——

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Italy

    Also written Sïgno

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Italy, United States

    Also written Signò, Sîgnô, Sinj

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Signò

27 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(measured from records)

Signo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of signar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In io, sign (natural or artificial), mark (indication)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, sign; emblem; symbol

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, to mark, sign

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Signo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—539#915
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—47—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

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 Signo mean, and where does it come from?
sign, indication Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Signo?
In the etymology graph, Signar is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Signo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Signo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled signo.
How common is the name Signo?
In Argentina, the national register counted 47 people named Signo, about 1 in 968 thousand residents.

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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, “Signo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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