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Simmon vs Simona

American parents have registered 4,038 Simonas since 1880, against 31 Simmons. Simona is still ahead, with 44 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Simmon Simona

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

Simona has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1883 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1930, when Simmon had 7 and Simona had 27.

Side by side

  Simmon Simona
Total US births 314,038
Most in one year 867
Babies in 2025 under 544
Estimated living today 203,100
Median age today 2230
Peak year 19902014
Best rank 5,823rd boys2,615th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,459th
First recorded 19301883
Girls / boys 0 / 314,038 / 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 Simonas alive today are over 30; half the Simmons are over 22. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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