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Simmon vs Simone

American parents have registered 28,067 Simones since 1880, against 31 Simmons. Simone is still ahead, with 254 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Simmon against Simone, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Simmon Simone

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

Simone has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1930, when Simmon had 7 and Simone had 22.

Side by side

  Simmon Simone
Total US births 3128,067
Most in one year 8807
Babies in 2025 under 5254
Estimated living today 2026,000
Median age today 2229
Peak year 19901988
Best rank 5,823rd boys311th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked995th
First recorded 19301908
Girls / boys 0 / 3127,531 / 536

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 Simones alive today are over 29; half the Simmons are over 22. That is 7 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 Simone.