Signe Hammarsten-Jansson was a Swedish illustrator, mother of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomintrolls.
-- Anonymous User 1/6/2007
About if it's like an "e" or an "a" on the end: I think this depends on where you live. I always spell it with "e", but maybe in other parts of Sweden it's spelled with an "a" on the end.
The G is not hard, it is SING-neh, not SIG- and never an A sound, no matter where you live in Sweden.
-- Anonymous User 2/4/2007
My name is Signe, and I live in Denmark. Here the name is pronounced "SEE-nu", with the E in the end sounding almost like the O in 'world' and the U in 'curl'.