Simeon is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Simeon isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Simeon ranks 965. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Simeon. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Simeon.
Simeon is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1900, where the name Simeon was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Simeon and were born in the USA in 1900, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Simeon even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1880, it ranked on position 331 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Simeon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Simeon has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 146 times and thus landed on position 1,193 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 146 boys with the name Simeon, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
You may not know anyone named Simeon, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to men and boys named Simeon. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Simeon living in one state or another. If your name is Simeon and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Georgia, which has the most people named Simeon relative to the population, you still have to ask 14,667 men and boys their names before you hear Simeon as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Simeon is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Simeon and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Simeon, you can simply say:
Sun
Igloo
Mouse
Elephant
Orange
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Simeon sounds like this:
