Simön
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Simön is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 41st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn).
- SESweden1 in 250(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 281
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 357
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Simön itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #617 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 551 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
323,710 named Simone, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Simon in GB United Kingdom, US United States, BR Brazil and 6 more and Šimon in CZ Czechia.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΣίμωνSímōn(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewשִׁמְעוֹןšimʿōn(measured from records)
From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn).
Sources 17
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simön 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 323,710as Simone | 1 in 654 | 340K | Simon | 145 |
| PL Poland | — | 244,933as Szymon | 1 in 156 | 245K | Simon | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | #234 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Simon | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | #50 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 357 | 373 | Simon | 442 |
| ZA South Africa | #45 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 625 | — | Simon | 132 |
| US United States | #641 | 68,780 | 1 in 4.8K | 80K | Simon | 551 |
| SE Sweden | #89 | 40,771 | 1 in 250 | 41K | Simon | 157 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 34,606 | 1 in 309 | 35K | Šimon | 5 |
| DK Denmark | #51 | 20,857 | 1 in 281 | 21K | Simon | 200 |
| CH Switzerland | #41 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 412 | 2.7K | Simon | 167 |
323,710 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling simone. 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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Simön mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 15 other sources.
- Is Simön a male or female name?
- Simön is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Simön have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 324 thousand people named Simone, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Simön most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Simön is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 250 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Simön?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,780 people named Simön in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Simön compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Simön is the 41st most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sim%C3%B6nThe 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, “Simön” — the 41st most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.