Șimon
surname · Latin script
Șimon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn).
- SESweden1 in 250(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 281
- CZCzechia1 in 309
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 422 (measured from records)
- 1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)
68,780 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Simon in US United States, SE Sweden, CM Cameroon.
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)- Ancient GreekΣίμωνSímōn(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewשִׁמְעוֹןšimʿōn(measured from records)
From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn).
Cited for this meaning 17
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Russian Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Șimon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 68,780 | 1 in 4.8K | 80K | Simon | 342 |
| SE Sweden | — | 40,771 | 1 in 250 | 41K | Simon | 61 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 34,606 | 1 in 309 | 35K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 20,857 | 1 in 281 | 21K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,676 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | — | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 6,573 | 1 in 320 | 6.6K | — | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,878 | 1 in 930 | 20K | — | 27 |
| CM Cameroon | #175 | — | — | — | Simon | 41 |
68,780 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; SURS — resident population given names. 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)- Alexandru Șimonb. 1873RORomanian politician
- Francisc Șimonb. 1927RORomanian water polo player (1927–2005)
- Ladislau Șimonb. 1951ROOlympic wrestler
- Mihai Șimonb. 1954RORomanian archaeologist (1954-1992)
- Gheorghe Șimonb. 1961RORomanian politician
- Gavrilă ȘimonRORomanian politician from Vișeu de Jos, Maramureș County
- Simion ȘimonRORomanian researcher
- Ioana-Maria Colceriu-ȘimonROresearcher
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Șimon mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 15 other sources.
- In which country does Șimon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 69 thousand people named Șimon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled simon.
- Where is Șimon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Șimon is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 250 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Șimon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 68,780 people named Șimon in 2020, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Șimon compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Șimon is the 175th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C8%99imonThe 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, “Șimon” — the 175th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.