Simon

Simon is the 403rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 78,701 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,798.

By the numbers

People: 78,701
Rank: 403rd
How common: 1 in 3,798
Per 100,000: 26.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 61.9%
Black, not Hispanic 22.4%
Hispanic or Latino 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Simon

Claude Simon (1913–2005)French writer
Paul Simon (born 1941)American singer-songwriter
Herbert Simon (1916–2001)American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist
Unai Simón (born 1997)Spanish footballer
Neil Simon (1927–2018)American playwright, writer, and academic
Gilles Simon (born 1984)French tennis player
Carly Simon (born 1943)American musician
Mary Simon (born 1947)Governor General of Canada 2021-2025

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

Surnames like Simon

Also a first name

Simon has been given to 70,444 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2015. 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.