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Shimon

#963 in 2025Boys' name

To hear, listen, through שמעון

Shimon has been given to 5,492 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #963 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Shimon, 2025

1 in 13,800

Shimon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shimon: meaning, origin, and history

To hear, listen, through שמעון

Hebrew

What Shimon means

Shimon belongs to the name family reached through Shimon → שמעון. Its meaning is “to hear, listen”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shimon is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Shimon comes through Hebrew שמעון.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include שִׁמְעוֹן and שמעון.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,492 boys were recorded with the name Shimon between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 255 in 2024; its best national rank was #915 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,021 in 2020 to #963 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,137 in 2015 to #963 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shimon?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,800
241 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,090
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#963
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,536 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shimon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,536 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shimon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shimons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shimon was born before 2011 — so the typical Shimon is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,487
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (1,729).

Is Shimon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−48
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+174
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.5%
Peak was 2024 (255)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#915
2024

Spellings of Shimon

Shimon is not the most common spelling — Simon is, with 64.6% against Shimon's 5.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shimon is used

Across 1910–2025, Shimon was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 8,512 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

030 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,882
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shimon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shimon around the world

Where Shimon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2020
    #4,652
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shimon

People whose public names include Shimon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shimon in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Shimon. Linked forms have their own page here.

SimonSemyonSimeonSimoneSzymonSimeóSimónŠimonSimonoSimeoneSimonas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Shimon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#963
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 58
Best rank ever
#915
2024
Peak year
2024
255 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,492
Count in 2025
241

Names similar to Shimon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shimon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shimon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ShlomoYitzchokJerichoAvrahamShmuelYisroelTorinYaakovTzviAmeerMordechaiZev

Sibling names for Shimon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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