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Simmie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Simmie has been given to 1,337 babies in the U.S. since 1884. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.

Babies named Simmie, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2008, Simmie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18842008

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.

Simmie: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Simmie means

Simmie is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Usually a diminutive derived from Simeon, Simpson and Simon.

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Origin, language, and formation

Simmie is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,177 boys were recorded with the name Simmie between 1884 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1918; its best national rank was #775 in 1899.

In the United States, 160 girls were recorded with the name Simmie between 1888 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,123 in 1888.

How common is Simmie?

Simmie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 408,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Simmie 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simmie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simmies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Simmie was born before 1940 — so the typical Simmie is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
397
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1940s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (198).

Is Simmie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (33)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#775
1899

Spellings of Simmie

Simmie is not the most common spelling — Jimmie is, with 63.1% against Simmie's 0.66%.

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 Simmie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Simmie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 220,532 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Mississippi1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Simmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Simmie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Simmie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 598,309 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 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. Simmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Simmie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#775
1899
Peak year
1918
33 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
1,177
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,123
1888
Peak year
1917
10 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
160
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Simmie

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

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Sibling names for Simmie

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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