Simons

At the 2020 census, 24,590 Americans bore the surname Simons — 1,412th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,200.

By the numbers

People: 24,590
Rank: 1,412th
How common: 1 in 12,200
Per 100,000: 8.2

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 Simons described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.3%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Simons

Xavi Simons (born 2003)Dutch association football player
Menno Simons (1496–1561)Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites
Simone Simons (born 1985)Dutch singer
Jim Simons (1938–2024)American mathematician and hedge fund manager
Jennifer Geerlings-Simons (born 1953)Surinamese physician and politician
Timmy Simons (born 1976)Belgian footballer
Walter Simons (1861–1937)German politician and judge
Regillio Simons (born 1973)Dutch association football player

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

Surnames like Simons

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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.