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Simcha

#1,741 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Happiness, joy

Simcha has been given to 2,236 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #1,741 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 94 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.

Babies named Simcha, 2025

1 in 35,300

Simcha over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Simcha over time

In 2025, Simcha went to 5% girls and 95% boys.

19562025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Simcha: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, joy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Simcha means

Simcha means “happiness, joy”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,009 boys were recorded with the name Simcha between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,741 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,064 in 2020 to #1,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,084 in 2015 to #1,741 in 2025.

In the United States, 227 girls were recorded with the name Simcha between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2002; its best national rank was #8,254 in 1997.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,742 in 2015 to #16,929 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.

How common is Simcha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,741
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Simcha 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simcha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simchas were born

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

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,009
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (606).

Is Simcha 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
+314
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+323
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+343
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (94)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,741
2025

Spellings of Simcha

Simcha is the most-used spelling, taking 52.5% of the 3,830 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Simcha is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Simcha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 11,176 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 14,286).

710 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 14,286

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. Simcha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Simcha is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Simcha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 329,116 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Simcha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Simcha around the world

Where Simcha 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Simcha

People whose public names include Simcha, 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.

Simcha by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 323
Best rank ever
#1,741
2025
Peak year
2025
94 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,009
Count in 2025
94

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,929
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,254
1997
Peak year
2002
12 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
227
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Simcha

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

SimeonSimmieMichaSimoneSaschaSimuelSimpsonSachaSimbaSimsSimSimranSimonMischaSimirSimereSimmonSimionMordchaSimarSimaoJaschaSimmonsCha

Names with a curve like Simcha

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

EliottIssaGiorgioShalomNaftaliSirNiallGavrielYehoshuaKekoaHussainAharon

Sibling names for Simcha

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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