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Sigfredo vs Signe

American parents have registered 3,003 Signes since 1880, against 252 Sigfredos. Signe is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sigfredo against Signe, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sigfredo Signe

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 141 years in which either name was published, Signe for 139 years and Sigfredo for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Sigfredo Signe
Total US births 2523,003
Most in one year 1467
Babies in 2025 under 58
Estimated living today 2201,500
Median age today 5046
Peak year 19581915
Best rank 2,177th boys802nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked10,917th
First recorded 19511884
Girls / boys 0 / 2523,003 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sigfredos alive today are over 50; half the Signes are over 46. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sigfredo and Signe.