Simeon
The boy's name Simeon has been in the national records since 1880, with 9,487 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,091st. About 8,000 Simeons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Simeon boys named Simeon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,487
- Estimated living today
- 8,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 961st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,091st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 25 / 9,462
How old the living Simeons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,487 babies given the name since 1880, about 8,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 330 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Middle English Simeon, from Latin Simeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών, from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן, originally referring to Simeon, a son of Jacob.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Simeons
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)French mathematician, mechanician and physicist
- Simeon II of Bulgaria (born 1937)Bulgarian politician and royal
- Simeon I of Bulgaria (863–927)Bulgarian Tsar who ruled from 893 to 927
- Simeon of Moscow (1316–1353)Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir
- Simeon Stylites (390–459)Christian ascetic saint
- Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600–1616)Tatar Khan, Grand Prince of Rus
- Simeon Uroš (1326–1371)politician
- Simeon Jackson (born 1987)Canadian footballer
People named Simeon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Simeon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Simeon is most concentrated in Georgia (2.3×), Florida (1.8×), Washington (1.6×), Indiana (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Simeon peaked:
Simeon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Simeon +1 spelling | 5,225 | 394th |
| England and Wales boys | Simeon | 1,202 | 351st |
| Switzerland boys | Simeon +1 spelling | 454 | 355th |
| Belgium boys | Siméon +1 spelling | 328 | 533rd |
| France girls | Simeon | 35 | 1,023rd |
| Ireland boys | Simeon | 10 | 527th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Simeon | 3 | 418th |
| Scotland boys | Simeon | 3 | 288th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Simeon: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Simeon | 300 | 0.024% | 233rd |
| German boys | Switzerland | Siméon | 14 | 0.001% | 1,233rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Siméon | 119 | 0.027% | 194th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Simeon | 15 | 0.003% | 372nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Simeon | 4 | 0.006% | 199th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Siméon | 1 | 0.002% | 195th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Simeon | 1 | 0.027% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Simeon is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.03% of children were given it – 71 of them.
Simeon: rank by region
In 2025, Simeon was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Siméon | 317 | 8 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Simeon appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (174th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Simeon by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 5 | 532nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Simeon among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Simeon | 264 | 1,069 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,069 who carry it, 264 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Simeon lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 838 men called Simeon were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Simeon | 10 | 0.126 | 560 |
| Soria | Simeon | 5 | 0.109 | 605 |
| Cáceres | Simeon | 21 | 0.109 | 580 |
| Ávila | Simeon | 8 | 0.099 | 618 |
| Valencia/València | Simeon | 131 | 0.097 | 705 |
| Huesca | Simeon | 11 | 0.094 | 735 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Simeon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.