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Simmon

Boys' name

English equivalent of Simon

Simmon has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 1990, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Simmon, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Simmon: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Simon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Simmon means

Simmon is a English equivalent of Simon.

Origin, language, and formation

Simmon is used in Northern Sami.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Simon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Simmon between 1930 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1990; its best national rank was #3,547 in 1930.

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 Simmon?

Simmon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Simmon 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simmon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simmons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Simmon was born before 2003 — so the typical Simmon is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
24
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2000s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Simmon 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (8)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,547
1930

Spellings of Simmon

Simmon is not the most common spelling — Simon is, with 65.7% against Simmon's 0.03%.

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.

Simmon around the world

Where Simmon 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.

  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #520
    in 1968

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Simmon 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
#3,547
1930
Peak year
1990
8 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Simmon

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

SimirSimereSimionSaimonSimaoSimbaRaemonBeamonSimmonsSimarHilmonRaimonJazmonJahmonDarmonLehmonSimranDiamonTrumonSeamonJaemonSaymonCaymonDazmon

Sibling names for Simmon

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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