Simmons
surname · Latin script
Meaning: different forms of Simons; see also Fitzsimmons
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪmənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Simmons is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Åland Islands it is the 26th most common surname.
- GHGhana≈1 in 670(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.2K
- USUnited States1 in 1.6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #426 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 582 (measured from records)
- 1 in 162 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
different forms of Simons; see also Fitzsimmons
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simmons 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Simmons | 16 |
| US United States | #95 | 210,182 | 1 in 1.6K | 210K | Simmons | 582 |
| GH Ghana | #38 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 670 | — | Simmons | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | #160 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 24K | Simmons | 265 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Simmons | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | #39 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Simmons | 8 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 624 | 1 in 162 | 624 | — | 6 |
| IS Iceland | #154 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Simmons | 8 |
| AX Åland Islands | #26 | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 536 | — | Simmons | 3 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Simmons is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Derived from biblical Simon, often shortened to Sim; p intruded later, first found in the 17th century and common only from the 19th.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, A southern English patronymic surname from the given name Simon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, College, MA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean Simmonsb. 1929GBBritish-American actress (1929–2010)
- Richard Simmonsb. 1948USAmerican fitness instructor and video producer (1948–2024)
- Dan Simmonsb. 1948USAmerican novelist (1948–2026)
- Gene Simmonsb. 1949USIsraeli-American musician and songwriter (born 1949)
- J. K. Simmonsb. 1955USAmerican actor (born 1955)
- Ron Simmonsb. 1958USAmerican football player and professional wrestler (born 1958)
- Henry Simmonsb. 1970USAmerican actor
- Chelan Simmonsb. 1982CACanadian actress
- Johnny Simmonsb. 1986USAmerican actor
- Ben Simmonsb. 1996AUAustralian basketball player (born 1996)
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)
Attested in 42 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 210K | #114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 202K | #103 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200K | #119 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24K | #291 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 624 | #23 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Simmons mean, and where does it come from?
- different forms of Simons; see also Fitzsimmons Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Simmons?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪmənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Simmons have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 534 thousand people named Simmons in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simmons.
- Where is Simmons most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Simmons is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 162 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Simmons?
- In the United States, the national register counted 210,182 people named Simmons in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Simmons compared with other names?
- In Åland Islands, Simmons is the 26th most common surname of 1,503 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/simmonsThe 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, “Simmons” — the 26th most common surname in Åland Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.