Sim

At the 2020 census, 6,408 Americans bore the surname Sim — 5,257th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 46,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,408
Rank: 5,257th
How common: 1 in 46,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Middle English Sym, of Simeon and Simon.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sim described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 70.2%
White, not Hispanic 22.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Sim

Cornelius Sim (1951–2021)Catholic bishop
Alastair Sim (1900–1976)Scottish actor
Dave Sim (born 1956)Canadian cartoonist and publisher
Sim (1926–2009)French comic actor
Sheila Sim (1922–2016)British actress

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

Surnames like Sim

Also a first name

Sim has been given to 1,933 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.