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Simon
Pronounced /ˈsaɪmən/
Rank in 2024
#251
Born in 2024
1,402
Peak year
2015 · #235
Origin
Hebrew
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,402 boys were named Simon, about 1 in every 1,223.
- It peaked in 2015 with 1,645 babies, ranked #235.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 68,732 boys have been named Simon since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Simon per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,160 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Silent: 3,867 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,063 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,143 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,588 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen Z: 20,467 babies, 0.65 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 17,798 babies, 0.82 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Simon, Symond, Symounde, from Anglo-Norman Simon, Simond, Simund, a conflation of two unrelated names: one from Latin Simon, from Koine Greek Σίμων (Símōn), strictly from Ancient Greek—likely σῑμός (sīmós, “snub-nosed”)—but used for Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn), doublet of Simeon; the other from Old Norse Sigmundr or Old English Siġemund, both from Proto-Germanic *Sigimunduz (literally “Protector of victory”), whence also Sigmund and Siegmund.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈsaɪmən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.