Simón
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Simón is a 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 a rhyme made with sí.
- 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 Simón 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)
From a rhyme made with sí.
Sources 1
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simón 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Simón Rodríguezb. 1769ESVenezuelan educator, philosopher and politician
- Simón Bolívarb. 1783VEVenezuelan statesman and military officer (1783–1830)
- Antoni Ramalletsb. 1924ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer (1924–2013)
- Simón Díazb. 1928VEVenezuelan musician (1928-2014)
- Simón Andreub. 1941ESSpanish actor
- Juan Simónb. 1960ARArgentine footballer
- Simón Brandb. 1970COPhotographer, music video director, film director
- Carla Simónb. 1986ESSpanish-Catalan film director and screenwriter (born 1986)
- Simón Mesa Sotob. 1986COColombian film director and screenwrit
- Unai Simón Mendibilb. 1997ESSpanish footballer (born 1997)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 52 | #13,232 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 36 | #4,248 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #4,443 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 30 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #9,237 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Simón mean, and where does it come from?
- From a rhyme made with sí. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Simón 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 Simón most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Simón is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 250 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Simón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,780 people named Simón in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Simón compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Simón 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%B3nThe 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, “Simón” — the 41st most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.