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Simi

#3,964 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Simran or Simrita

Simi has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #3,964 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Simi, 2025

1 in 89,600

Simi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Simi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Simran or Simrita

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Simi means

Simi is a diminutive of Simran or Simrita.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Likely formed with -i (suffix forming diminutives of given names).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Simi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Simi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Simran and Simrita.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 545 girls were recorded with the name Simi between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,964 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,288 in 2020 to #3,964 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,563 in 2015 to #3,964 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Simi between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1993; its best national rank was #8,547 in 1993.

How common is Simi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,964
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Simi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Simi was born before 2013 — so the typical Simi is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
545
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (163).

Is Simi 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
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,324
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,599
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (37)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,964
2025

Spellings of Simi

Simi is not the most common spelling — Kim is, with 43.3% against Simi's 0.13%.

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 Simi is used

Across 1910–2025, Simi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 69,729 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Simi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Simi around the world

Where Simi 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2021
    #7,471
    in 2021

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

Simi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,964
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,324
Best rank ever
#3,964
2025
Peak year
2025
37 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
545
Count in 2025
37

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,547
1993
Peak year
1993
6 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Simi

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

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Sibling names for Simi

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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