The name Simon has two unrelated origins. It derives from the Hebrew name Shim’on meaning ‘he has heard’, Simeon is another spelling of this variant. As a Greek name, it derives from the Greek word ‘simos’, which means ‘flat-nosed’.
Simon is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Simon 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, Simon ranks 241. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 9 were named Simon. In the entire USA, approximately 58,627 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Simon. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Simon has two unrelated origins. It derives from the Hebrew name Shim’on meaning ‘he has heard’, Simeon is another spelling of this variant. As a Greek name, it derives from the Greek word ‘simos’, which means ‘flat-nosed’.
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel, consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel, were among the most successful musicians of the 1960s. Their best-known songs include »The Sound of Silence« (1965) and the two Grammy winners »Mrs Robinson« (1968) and »Bridge over Troubled Water« (1970). Their last studio album before splitting up, »Bridge over Troubled Water«, became one of the best-selling albums in the world. Simon & Garfunkel have won a total of seven Grammy Awards and four Grammy Hall of Fame Awards. They have been part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1990.
Simon John Pegg (*1970)
The British actor became known as co-creator of the sitcom »Spaced« (1999-2001), directed by Edgar Wright. He and Wright co-wrote the movies »Shaun of the Dead« (2004), »Hot Fuzz« (2007) and »The World's End« (2013). He plays a supporting role alongside Tom Cruise in several parts of the »Mission Impossible« action movies and can be seen as Commander Montgomery »Scotty« Scott in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth episode of the »Star Trek« movies.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte
The Venezuelan military and political leader, known as »Simón Bolívar« for short, was an independence fighter and dictator. He led the present-day countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from Spanish colonial rule. He is colloquially known as »El Libertador«.
Simon Phillip Cowell (*1959)
Cowell used to be a judge on the casting shows »American Idol« and »Pop Idol«. He became well known as the creator and judge of the British and US casting shows »Britain's Got Talent«, »The X Factor«, »America's Got Talent« and »The X Factor USA«.
Simon Lucas Baker (*1969)
The Australian actor and director became known to a wide television audience as Patrick Jane in TV series »The Mentalist«. He received an Emmy nomination for the series in 2009. In 2010, he was nominated for a Golden Globe (Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama) and for a Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series).
When you hear the name Simon, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Simon? Are you also called Simon? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
»Simon« is the name of a place in the parish of Mirdita in Albania.
There is a settlement in the Parish of Saint Andrew in the east of Grenada called »Simon«.
is the name of an approx. 1,000 m high mountain in the northwest of Alexander I Island. It lies off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Simon annualy. This means that there have been boys named Simon who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Simon have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Simon even more than any other time: in 1883, it holds its present record at rank #136 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Simon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Simon has never been ranked higher than #136. In 2022, he rivaled the 237 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 1,444 boys named Simon were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Simon were born, there have been 687 newborns who received this name.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Simon occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Simon is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Simon is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 58,627 men and boys of all generations bear the name Simon – that is one in 2,847. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in New Mexico, where one in 400 men and boys is called Simon, while it is particularly rare in Delaware, where you have to ask an average of 35,692 men for their name to get Simon as an answer 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 five letters, the name Simon is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Simon 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 Simon, you can simply say:
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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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Simon
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. Simon sounds like this:
