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Simran

#5,081 in 2025Girls' name

Memory, remembering, repetition, through ਸਿਮਰਨ

Simran has been given to 3,000 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,081 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 158 recorded.

Babies named Simran, 2025

1 in 128,000

Simran over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Simran: meaning, origin, and history

Memory, remembering, repetition, through ਸਿਮਰਨ

Punjabi

What Simran means

Simran belongs to the name family reached through Simran → ਸਿਮਰਨ. Its meaning is “memory, remembering, repetition”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Derived from Punjabi ਸਿਮਰਨ (simran). Doublet of simran.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Simran is used in English. Its origins include Punjabi.

Simran comes through Punjabi ਸਿਮਰਨ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ਸਿਮਰਨ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,866 girls were recorded with the name Simran between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,251 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,770 in 2020 to #5,081 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,552 in 2015 to #5,081 in 2025.

In the United States, 134 boys were recorded with the name Simran between 1988 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1998; its best national rank was #4,608 in 1998.

How common is Simran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,081
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Simran 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Simran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Simrans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Simran was born before 2005 — so the typical Simran is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,866
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.4% of all recorded uses (1,359).

Is Simran 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
−979
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,311
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,529
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.5%
Peak was 2001 (158)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,251
2001

Spellings of Simran

Simran is not the most common spelling — Iman is, with 20.6% against Simran's 11.5%.

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 Simran is used

Across 1910–2025, Simran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 58,033 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Simran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Simran around the world

Where Simran 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
    #1,315
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • France
    2004–2023
    #5,727
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Simran

People whose public names include Simran, 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.

Simran by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,081
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,311
Best rank ever
#1,251
2001
Peak year
2001
158 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,866
Count in 2025
26

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,608
1998
Peak year
1998
15 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
134
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Simran

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

SimonaSimaKieranSimoneKiranSimchaSimayaSimratCameranSimraSimaraSimiLauranSimonneSimoraSharanKaranSaranSimrahSheranTerranSimmieAmranHeran

Names with a curve like Simran

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

CamerynMattisonYazmineMakaelaAlliyahGisselKalistaLexyCarringtonShaelynMasonAbriana

Sibling names for Simran

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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