Simpson
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Simpson has been given to 707 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1921, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Simpson, 1992
1 in 768,000
Simpson over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Simpson?
Simpson had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,839,369 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,251 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Simpson sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simpson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Simpsons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Simpson was born before 1926 — so the typical Simpson is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 20.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 168
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (148).
Is Simpson 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1921 (25)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.5% average annual change
Spellings of Simpson
Simpson is not the most common spelling — Simon is, with 72.3% against Simpson's 0.73%.
Where Simpson is used
Across 1910–2025, Simpson was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 314,007 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2South Carolina1 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. Simpson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Simpson around the world
Where Simpson 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.
- Canada1991–1991#1,710in 1991
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Simpson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Simpson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Simpson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.