Šimkus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. Ž:mka, Šimkas, Šimkė (žr.), toliau plg (Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ʃʲɪmkʊs/(machine-generated) Lithuanian · model-generated
Šimkus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 45K
- FIFinland1 in 155K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Simkus in US United States, NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Šimkus
- Lithuanian:/ʃʲɪmkʊs/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Plg. Ž:mka, Šimkas, Šimkė (žr.), toliau plg. brus. HlbimKO : Cumon (M. bap»ura, 1966, c. 152), lenk. Szymek, Szymko, Szymk : Siemion, Szyman (SSNO V 352—353), ukr. Ilumko (FO. Pensko, 1969, c. 241).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šimkus is found
(measured from records)Šimkus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Stasys Šimkusb. 1887LTLithuanian composer (1887-1943)
- Vestards Šimkusb. 1984LVLatvian pianist and composer
- Domantas Šimkusb. 1996LTLithuanian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Šimkus?
- In Lithuanian /ʃʲɪmkʊs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Šimkus mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. Ž:mka, Šimkas, Šimkė (žr.), toliau plg.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šimkus?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Šimkus in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šimkus. After it come United States, Latvia, Norway and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Šimkus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 246 people named Šimkus in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Šimkus compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Šimkus is the 13th most common surname of 43,479 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1imkusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šimkus” — the 13th most common surname in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.