Simmons

At the 2020 census, 199,853 Americans bore the surname Simmons — 119th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,496.

By the numbers

People: 199,853
Rank: 119th
How common: 1 in 1,496
Per 100,000: 66.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 55.5%
Black, not Hispanic 35.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Simmons

Gene Simmons (born 1949)Israeli-American musician and songwriter
Kimora Lee Simmons (born 1975)American model
Liesel Pritzker Simmons (born 1984)American actress and philanthropist

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

Surnames like Simmons

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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.