Simões

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Rio de Janeiro; Brasil; Portimão; Lisboa; Portugal

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Simões is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

10 other spellings are 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)

recorded in Portuguese

Rio de Janeiro; Brasil; Portimão; Lisboa; Portugal

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Simões counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Simões is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—2.3K—
IN India—943—
CH Switzerland—827—
ES Spain—741—
UY Uruguay—542—

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 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Simões is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Portuguese, English, German

    Also written SImoes, Simöes, Simőes, Simoès, Simōes

  • Hindi surname9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written SImoes, Simőes, Simoës, Simóes, Simöes

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written SImoes, Симоес, Симоинш, Simőes, Simôes

  • Arabic surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kuwait, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

    Also written SImoes, Símões, Simöes

44 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)

1850190019502000João Simões Lopes Neto, b. 1865António Simões, b. 1943René Simões, b. 1952Nuno Espírito Santo, b. 1974Victor Simões de Oliveira, b. 1981Duda Beat, b. 1987Fabiana Simões, b. 1989Nélson Oliveira, b. 1989André Simões, b. 1989Michael Simões Domingues, 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Simões
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024827#1,462

Reference works 3

  • 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 Simões mean?
Recorded meaning: Rio de Janeiro; Brasil; Portimão; Lisboa; Portugal
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Simões is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Simões”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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