Sims

Sims is the 277th most common surname in the United States, shared by 109,854 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,721.

By the numbers

People: 109,854
Rank: 277th
How common: 1 in 2,721
Per 100,000: 36.8

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

White, not Hispanic 51.9%
Black, not Hispanic 38.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Sims

Christopher A. Sims (1942–2026)American econometrician and macroeconomist
Molly Sims (born 1973)American actress
Zoot Sims (1925–1985)American jazz saxophonist
Joan Sims (1930–2001)English actress
John Sims (1749–1831)English physician and botanist
J. Marion Sims (1813–1883)American physician and gynecologist
Alexander Sims (born 1988)British racing driver
Bella Sims (born 2005)American swimmer

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

Surnames like Sims

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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.