>
Around the globe, Chimen (שמעון , Chimen , Чимен ) is a rare gender-neutral given name. The first name Chimen is habitual in Israel, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Cameroon, where it is a rare girly name, and Iraq. Very seldom, Chimen is the last name as well as the forename.
Chimen is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Peter , the 1st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Patriarch of Antioch and Apostle of Jesus Christ, Gospel of Mark; Simon the Zealot , the apostle of Jesus; Simon of Cyrene , the man who was forced by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus, Matthew 27; Simeon , the in the Gospel according to Luke, a man who meets Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus (Luke 2:25–35), Presentation of Jesus at the Temple and Simeon , the Biblical character; second son of Jacob and Leah, Genesis 35.