Signe combines the Old Norse sigr (victory) and ný (new) — meaning "new victory." In Norse legend, Signe is the daughter of King Volsung and wife of King Siggeir.
Signe is widely used in modern Scandinavia.
Signe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Signe reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.