Simey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE sige + mǣg ‘victory-kinsman’; first attested Robert Sygemay 1275 Wak (Yorkshire)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/simei/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Simey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PAPanama≈1 in 145K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 182K
- BRBrazil1 in 933K
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)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
227 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE sige + mǣg ‘victory-kinsman’; first attested Robert Sygemay 1275 Wak (Yorkshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Simey 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.
227 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Simey 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.
In English, surname form; related to OE/ON name elements, see context
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Ralph Iliff Simeyb. 1862GBEnglish barrister, b. 28 March 1862, d. 1944
- Duncan Michael Simeyb. 1964GB(born 1964)
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 227 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 216 | #24,119 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 190 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 141 | #17,841 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 131 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 128 | #23,214 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 99 | #23,214 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 93 | #19,613 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 66 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 39 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Simey mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE sige + mǣg ‘victory-kinsman’; first attested Robert Sygemay 1275 Wak (Yorkshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Simey?
- A machine transcription gives /simei/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Simey a male or female name?
- Simey 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.
- In which country does Simey have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 227 people named Simey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simey.
- How common is the name Simey?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 227 people named Simey in 2022, about 1 in 933 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/simeyThe 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, “Simey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.