first name
SIMON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 68,780 people named Simon, 55.5% reported their origin as White, 21.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 11.5% as Asian or Pacific Islander. 99.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Simon peaked in 2015, when 1,653 babies got the name.
At least 70,444 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Simon by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #376. The largest share of babies named Simon, 29.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Simon is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Simon has been most common in New Mexico (1.9×), Alaska (1.7×), and Oregon (1.7×), and least common in West Virginia (0.17×).
63,307 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Simon
Spelled almost the same
6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Simon, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Simon ranks #403 of 156,621, with 78,701 people. See Simon as a last name
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