Signe vs Sigrid
American parents have registered 3,110 Sigrids since 1880, against 3,003 Signes. Sigrid is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Signe Sigrid
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 77 years and Sigrid for 64 years. The lead changed hands 33 times.
- 1887–1928 Signe ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1932–1945 Sigrid ahead
- 1946–1948 Signe ahead
- 1952–1971 Sigrid ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1982–1987 Signe ahead
- 1993–1995 Sigrid ahead
- 1996–2012 Signe ahead
- 2013–2025 Sigrid ahead, apart from one short spell
22 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Signe | Sigrid | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,003 | 3,110 |
| Most in one year | 67 | 56 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | 32 |
| Estimated living today | 1,500 | 1,700 |
| Median age today | 46 | 54 |
| Peak year | 1915 | 2022 |
| Best rank | 802nd girls | 2,956th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,917th | 4,352nd |
| First recorded | 1884 | 1886 |
| Girls / boys | 3,003 / 0 | 3,110 / 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 Sigrids alive today are over 54; half the Signes are over 46. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Signe Minnesota (26.5×), Washington (3.2×), Wisconsin (2.6×)
- Sigrid Minnesota (7.4×), New York (3.6×), California (3.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Signe | Sigrid |
|---|---|---|
| Norway | 5,423 | 6,937 |
| Sweden | 7,238 | 3,529 |
| England and Wales | 7 | 38 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Signe and Sigrid.