Simon

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Simon boys named Simon

By the numbers

Total US births

70,444

Estimated living today

57,000

Median age today

19

Peak year

2015

Best rank

235th

Rank in 2025

230th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

161 / 70,283

How old the living Simons are

born that year still alive today

Of the 70,444 babies given the name since 1880, about 57,000 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 2,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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 Simon, Symond, Symounde, from Anglo-Norman Simon, Simond, Simund, a conflation of two unrelated names: one from Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων, from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (“hearkening”), ; the other from Old Norse Sigmundr or Old English Siġemund, both from Proto-Germanic *Sigimunduz, whence also Sigmund and Siegmund.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Simons

• Simón Bolívar (1783–1830)Venezuelan statesman and military officer
• Simon Pegg (born 1970)English actor
• Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854)German physicist and mathematician
• Simon van der Meer (1925–2011)Dutch physicist
• Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005)Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter
• Simon Kuznets (1901–1985)Russian-born American economist and statistician
• Simon Mignolet (born 1988)Belgian association football player
• Simon Kjær (born 1989)Danish footballer

People named Simon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Simon is most common

• CA7,717
• TX6,890
• NY6,185
• PA2,667
• OH2,494
• IL2,483
• FL2,401
• MI2,121
• WA1,741
• MN1,700

Relative to how many babies each state records, Simon is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.0×), Alaska (1.7×), Oregon (1.7×), Washington (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular boys’ names the year Simon peaked:

• Noah
• Liam
• Mason
• Jacob
• William
• Ethan

All the names of 2015

Simon elsewhere

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.

Simon: births by region

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, Simon is most concentrated in Uri, where 0.63% of children were given it – 51 of them.

Simon: rank by region

In 2025, Simon was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2019, Simon was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 4 different years.

In 2024, Simon was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Simon appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (24th), Province of Hainaut (49th), Brussels-Capital Region (68th), Province of Liège (71st), Province of Limburg (109th), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd) and Province of Antwerp (226th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.

Simon by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Simon 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.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Simon lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 10,326 men called Simon 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

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Simone
• Simeon
• Simona
• Simran
• Simcha
• Sima
• Sim
• Simmie
• Simonne
• Simpson
• Simi

Simon against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Simon vs Simone
• Simon vs Simeon
• Simon vs Simona
• Simon vs Simran
• Simon vs Simcha
• Simon vs Sima

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