Signy
loc · Latin script
Meaning: SHYLOH---
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Signy is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 10K
- SESweden1 in 200K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
542 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Signý in IS Iceland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
SHYLOH---
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Signy 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.
542 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
Signy 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.
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of the elements sigr victory + ný new. Variants: Signi, Signe .
as a word
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)
- Signy Arctanderb. 1895NONorwegian statistician and economist (1895-1971)
- Signy Wennerholmb. 1907NONorwegian tennis player
- Signy Colemanb. 1960USAmerican actress
- Signy Fardalb. 1961NONorwegian journalist and editor
- Signy Aarnab. 1990EEEstonian football player (born 1990)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- In which country does Signy have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 542 people named Signy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Signy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Signy is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Signy mean, and where does it come from?
- SHYLOH--- Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How common is the name Signy?
- In Norway, the national register counted 542 people named Signy in 2025, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Signy compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Signy is the 909th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Signy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/signyThe 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, “Signy” — the 909th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.