Given name · also Old Norse
Signy
“a newly victorious woman”
Signy is used as a given name. One Scandinavian interpretation is “a newly victorious woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scandinavian interpretation is “a newly victorious woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
Its Old Norse formation brings together sigr (“victory”) and ný (“new”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Signy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 0 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Signy’s family of names
Signy has a related form in Signe. Signy has a related form in Signe. Signy has a related form in Signea.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Signevariant
- Sinjevariant · German
- Signeavariant
- Signildavariant
- Signildevariant
- Signilavariant
- Signeevariant
- Signeyvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Signy
- Signy AarnaEstonian football player (born 1990)
- Signy ColemanAmerican actressborn 1960
- Signy ArctanderNorwegian statistician and economist (1895-1971)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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