Simms

25,308 people in the United States were counted with the surname Simms in the 2020 census, making it the 1,371st most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,800.

By the numbers

People: 25,308
Rank: 1,371st
How common: 1 in 11,800
Per 100,000: 8.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Sim, the short form of Simon +.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 50.1%
Black, not Hispanic 40.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Simms

William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870)American writer
Ginny Simms (1913–1994)American singer and actress
Phil Simms (born 1954)American football player and sportscaster
Juliet Simms (born 1986)American singer-songwriter

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

Surnames like Simms

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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.