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Simona

#3,508 in 2025Girls' name

Hearkening, through Simone

Simona has been given to 4,038 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #3,508 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Simona, 2025

1 in 75,300

Simona over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Simona: meaning, origin, and history

Hearkening, through Simone

Hebrew

What Simona means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Latinized from French Simone, or borrowed from Italian Simona.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Simona is used in English, Czech, Faroese, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovak. Its origins include Hebrew.

Simona comes through French Simone and Italian Simona.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Simone, Simons and Simon.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Simona is pronounced [ˈsɪmona].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,038 girls were recorded with the name Simona between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 2014; its best national rank was #688 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,884 in 2020 to #3,508 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,053 in 2015 to #3,508 in 2025.

How common is Simona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,508
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Simona 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Simona was born before 1983 — so the typical Simona is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
14.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,053
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 14.3% of all recorded uses (579).

Is Simona 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
−585
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−624
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−455
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.7%
Peak was 2014 (67)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#688
1883

Spellings of Simona

Simona is not the most common spelling — Ramona is, with 19.3% against Simona's 1.1%.

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 Simona is used

Across 2016–2025, Simona was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 40,565 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2Washington1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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.

Simona around the world

Where Simona 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
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #434
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2002–2017
    #651
    in 2017
  • France
    1977–2025
    #3,890
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #478
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2008
    #533
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Simona

People whose public names include Simona, 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.

Simona in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Simona. Linked forms have their own page here.

JimenaSimoneSimonneKsymenaSimonette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Simona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,508
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 624
Best rank ever
#688
1883
Peak year
2014
67 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,038
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Simona

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

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Names with a curve like Simona

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

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Sibling names for Simona

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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