Simona
given name · Latin script
Meaning: feminine form of Simon; from Hebrew, "he has heard"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/simona/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Simona is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In North Macedonia it is the 19th most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 181(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 315
- ITItaly≈1 in 461
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 Simona 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- 1 in 181 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
feminine form of Simon; from Hebrew, "he has heard"
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #547 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | 52 | Simona | 118 |
| RO Romania | #262 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 315 | — | Simona | 66 |
| CZ Czechia | #93 | 59,236 | 1 in 181 | 59K | Simona | 122 |
| DE Germany | #945 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Simona | 162 |
| BG Bulgaria | #144 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 960 | 343 | Simona | 109 |
| SI Slovenia | #72 | 5,705 | 1 in 369 | 5.7K | Simona | 59 |
| MK North Macedonia | #19 | 4,043as Симона | 1 in 526 | 4K | Simona | 37 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); NSI — newborn names (press release); SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Simona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme féminine de Simon.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
La que me ha escuchado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Colei che ascolta
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Finnish, essive singular of Simo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Simone Martinib. 1284ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter
- Simone de Beauvoirb. 1908FRnot in their usual nameFrench philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
- Simone Weilb. 1909FRnot in their usual nameFrench philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
- Simone Simonb. 1910FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Michèle Morganb. 1920FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1920-2016)
- Simone Signoretb. 1921FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress (1921-1985)
- Simone Veilb. 1927FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1927–2017)
- Simone Pepeb. 1983ITnot in their usual nameItalian association football player
- Simona Halepb. 1991RORomanian female tennis player
- Simone Ashleyb. 1995GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 59K | #82 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 30K | #91 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 5.7K | #39 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 5.7K | #84 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — newborn names (press release) | 2018 | 343 | #9 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 52 | #304 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2004 | 10 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Simona mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine form of Simon; from Hebrew, "he has heard" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Simona have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 135 thousand people named Simona in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simona.
- Where is Simona most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Simona is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 181 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- Is Simona a male or female name?
- Simona is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Simona?
- A machine transcription gives /simona/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Simona?
- In the etymology graph, Simone, Ximena and Jimena are forms of the same name in other languages; Simonetta is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Simona?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 59,236 people named Simona, about 1 in 181 residents.
- How common is Simona compared with other names?
- In Italy, Simona is the 547th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Simona?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/simonaThe 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, “Simona” — the 547th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.