Símun

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Simon

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

Símun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. In Faroe Islands it is the 94th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 175K
  • ISIceland1 in 175K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,722 people, 2021

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

a male given name, equivalent to English Simon

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Símun 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 Símun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia—1,7221 in 2.5K3.2K——
DK Denmark—211 in 279K21——
SI Slovenia—121 in 175K13——
SE Sweden—111 in 928K13——
IS Iceland—21 in 175K2——
FO Faroe Islands#94——86Símun3

1,722 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Símun is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Latvia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Simun, Šimun

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Simun, Sīmūn, Šimun, Simŭn

2 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Símun Mikkjal Zachariasen, b. 1853Símun Júst Jacobsen, b. 1864Símun av Skarði, b. 1872Símun Pauli úr Konoy, b. 1876Símun Petur Zachariasen, b. 1887Símun Samuelsen, b. 1985Jóan Símun Edmundsson, b. 1991

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)

InformalHej Símun,Hi Símun, (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 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Símun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FO Faroe IslandsHagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024)—86—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—21#4,262
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261—
FO Faroe IslandsFólkanavnalistin — official advisory list of given names (Navnanevndin)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Símun mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Simon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Símun a male or female name?
Símun is a male 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.
In which country does Símun have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Símun, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Símun most common?
Símun is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Símun?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,722 people named Símun in 2021, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
How common is Símun compared with other names?
In Faroe Islands, Símun is the 94th most common given name of 194 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Símun” — the 94th most common given name in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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