Signa

Last seen for girls in 1993 at #11,780

Peak · girls
1892 · 12 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
411
since 1889

Signa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Signa has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201889peak #861, 1892girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1956#5,3256
1955#5,2086
1954#5,1486
1953#3,9559
1952#4,4837
1951#3,7149
1950#3,9628
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1947#4,3457
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1942#3,4448
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1936#2,8579
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1927#4,8055
1926#4,3066
1925#3,3629
1924#4,4346
1923#3,6418
1922#2,61213
1921#3,4009
1920#3,3409
1919#3,8177
1918#3,02410
1917#2,42813
1916#2,24614
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1913#1,88311
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1911#2,1916
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1909#2,2085
1908#1,6767
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1904#1,4867
1903#1,3188
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1900#1,23110
1899#1,2787
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1892#86112
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Signa! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1891, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Signa is popular in 1889

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Signa
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1993
  • Biggest jump: 339 spots in 1890 (#1,279 → #940)
  • Biggest drop: 386 spots in 1897 (#999 → #1,385)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1892 at #861 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1897, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1890–1896
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,695
  • Highest: 1 in 17,695 girls born in 1892 were named Signa (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 301,512 girls born in 1993 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 24.3% of all girls named Signa (100) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,279 (1889)#1,279
1890s78#861 (1892)#1,144
1900s37#1,231 (1900)#1,584
1910s100#1,540 (1912)#2,364
1920s65#2,612 (1922)#3,738
1930s31#2,857 (1936)#3,267
1940s32#3,208 (1940)#3,607
1950s51#3,714 (1951)#4,542
1960s0——
1970s6#7,070 (1970)#7,070
1980s0——
1990s6#11,780 (1993)#11,780

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Signa in 1889

girls
#1,279
5 births · 1 in 35,673 girls

Top girls' names in 1889

  1. #1Mary11,648
  2. #2Anna5,062
  3. #3Elizabeth3,058
  4. #4Margaret2,917
  5. #5Emma2,884
  6. #6Minnie2,624
  7. #7Florence2,465
  8. #8Ethel2,463
  9. #9Bessie2,343
  10. #10Clara2,319
  11. #1,279Signa5
More about 1889

girls

178,366 girls got a published name in 1889; 1 in 35,673 of them was named Signa, which outranked 13.5% of the 1,479 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Signa
  1. #1,147Weltha6
  2. #1,147Will6
  3. #1,147Zaida6
  4. #1,279Signa5
  5. #1,279Adelaida5
  6. #1,279Aileene5
  7. #1,279Ala5

Tied with 200 names at #1,279; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1888
Risers
  1. ↑ 635Hellen#1,276 → #641
  2. ↑ 569Diana#1,136 → #567
  3. ↑ 536Hope#1,136 → #600
  4. ↑ 519Adelle#1,276 → #757
  5. ↑ 519Ova#1,276 → #757
Fallers
  1. ↓ 667Zilpha#612 → #1,279
  2. ↓ 643Lular#636 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 616Dagmar#663 → #1,279
  4. ↓ 589Savanah#690 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 555Harry#724 → #1,279

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1889 →