Simmie
Simmie reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 1,211, and has been recorded 1,337 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 460 Simmies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Simmie boys named Simmie
Girls and boys called Simmie
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 160 girls and 1,177 boys in all, and in 1947 the split was 7 to 23.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,337
- Estimated living today
- 460
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,211th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 160 / 1,177
How old the living Simmies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,337 babies given the name since 1884, about 460 are alive — 34 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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
Usually a diminutive derived from Simeon, Simpson and Simon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Simmie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Simmie is most concentrated in Georgia (13.2×), Alabama (13.0×), Louisiana (9.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Simmie peaked:
Related names
Simmie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.