Simone

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: a female given name from French, masculine equivalent Simão

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/simoni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Simone is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 277(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 654
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.5K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

323,710 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
290 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 277 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SimoneLatin(measured from records)
სიმონეGeorgian(measured from records)

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 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Simone is read(measured from records)

Simone is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Portuguese43%

    a female given name from French, masculine equivalent Simão

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English20%

    feminine form of Simon; from Hebrew, "he has heard"

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • German13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Simone in German.

  • French10%

    a female given name, masculine equivalent Simon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Forme féminine de Simon; origine hébraïque, « exaucée ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Féminin de Simon, hébreu « Dieu a entendu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Italian7.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Simone in Italian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Simone 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.

Where Simone is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#76323,7101 in 654340KSimone236
IT Italy#324≈230,000 est.≈1 in 277773Simone165
FR France—≈34,000 est.≈1 in 2K220K—3
US United States—30,1901 in 11K29KSimone290
GB United Kingdom—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Simone116
AT Austria—≈9,100 est.≈1 in 9775.3K—1
DK Denmark—6,6141 in 8876.6K—2
GY Guyana—8641 in 868864——

323,710 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Simone is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Simoné, Simone', Si'Mone, Simonè, Simon'E

  • French given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

    Languages: French, Arabic, Vietnamese

    Also written Simonne, Simonné, Sîmonne, Simonnè

  • Italian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, France, United Kingdom

    Also written Sìmone, Simoné, Sïmone, 'Simone, Sìmònè

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Simòne, Simoné, Simonè, Simonē, Simône

  • Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Simoné, Simonè, Sìmònè, Šimone, Simóne

  • Polish given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Croatia, United States, Poland

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Симоне, Simonè, Simóne, Simoné, Šimone

88 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Simone is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • French feminine form of Simon, now also quite commonly used in the English-speaking world. Variant: Sylvester.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first 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)

12001400160018002000Simone Martini, b. 1284Simone de Beauvoir, b. 1908Simone Weil, b. 1909Simone Simon, b. 1910Michèle Morgan, b. 1920Simone Signoret, b. 1921Simone Veil, b. 1927Simone Inzaghi, b. 1976Simone Pepe, b. 1983Simone Ashley, b. 1995

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)

InformalOlá Simone,Hi Simone, (English)

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 119 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Simone
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—340K#138
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022324K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—322K#84
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024220K#563
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202029K#1,248
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6.6K#104
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20245.3K#552
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#84
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#1,248
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025864#77
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024773#50
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020323—

Reference works 9

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

Is Simone a male or female name?
Simone 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.
Where does the name Simone 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….
What are other forms of the name Simone?
In the etymology graph, Simon is a form of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Simone mean?
In Portuguese, a female given name from French, masculine equivalent Simão
How do you pronounce Simone?
A machine transcription gives /simoni/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Simone 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 it is most often spelled simone.
How common is the name Simone?
In Brazil, the national register counted 323,710 people named Simone in 2022, about 1 in 654 residents.
How common is Simone compared with other names?
In Brazil, Simone is the 76th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Simone” — the 76th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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