Signe

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Female Name

Usage

Old Danish
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Old Danish form of Signý ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Signý

Name Days

Finland

23 August

Norway

23 August

Finland (Swedish Language)

23 August

Sweden

23 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Denmark: 1382 ^[1]
Sweden: 1583 ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Skåne until 1800, later it had spread all over the country ^[1]

Namesakes

Signe Amanda Georgina Hebbe (30 July 1837 – 14 February 1925), Swedish singer, actress, and theatre pedagogue

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[3]		13374	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[4]		7156	17157	0	0
Norway[5]		3045	6031	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	6918	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][3][5][6]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[4] [3] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi