Simms

Boys' name

Hearkening, through Simon

Simms has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2010. 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 2010, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Simms, 2010

1 in 739,000

Simms over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Simms: meaning, origin, and history

Hearkening, through Simon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Simms means

Simms belongs to the name family reached through Simms → Simon. Its meaning is “hearkening”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sim, the short form of Simon + -s.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Simms is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Simon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Simms is pronounced /sɪmz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Simms between 2010 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2010; its best national rank was #13,957 in 2010.

How common is Simms?

Simms had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010: 1 in 739,000; 5 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only: 1 in 384,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 512,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Simms 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 2010 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 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simms. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simmss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Simms was born before 2010 — so the typical Simms is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Simms 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: —; 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 2010 (5)
Years since peak: 15; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,957; 2010

Spellings of Simms

Simms is not the most common spelling — Jimmy is, with 56.7% against Simms's <0.01%.

Jimmy56.7%288,737
Silas14.8%75,465
Simon13.8%70,283
Sammy8.5%43,382
Timmy5.1%25,755
Sim0.38%1,933
Dimas0.36%1,834
Simmie0.23%1,177

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.

Simms 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: #13,957; 2010
Peak year: 2010; 5 that year
First recorded: 2010
Last recorded: 2010
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Simms

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

Simere Simir Simote Sime Simi Simione Simao Jamms Simitrio Simba Simmeon Simar Simmon Simion Simmons Simonpeter Sims Simplicio Simbarashe Simranjit Simran Simuel Simone Simcha

Sibling names for Simms

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

For a sister

Jordynn Hayleigh Heidy Carleigh Paityn Jocelynn Lailah Kayleen

For a brother

Jerimiah Rylee Jordyn Giovanny Zavier Tristian Aaden Chace

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