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Listening or hearkening, in the documented Hebrew name history.
Shimon is explicitly a transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן. The linked Simeon entry gives listening/hearkening for the same Hebrew name. The licensed son-of-Simon gloss is not corroborated and is not presented as a literal meaning or a statement about a child’s parentage.
Hebrew name transliteration
The English entry records transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן. The original script is retained in the source; no unreviewed English pronunciation or literal gloss is supplied.
Not yet published for this spelling.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 17 · preliminary | 1374 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2020 | Boys | 5 (rounded to 5) | 4652 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Boys | 17 | 1538 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 241 | 960 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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The exact English personal-name section documents use of this spelling as a given name. Language of use is separate from Hebrew linguistic ancestry; no English pronunciation is inferred from transliteration. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name entries and the cited revisions. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed explicit naming relationships and lexical explanations, retaining separate spellings and excluding surname statistics; no images or audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Hebrew personal-name entry explicitly documents male given-name use, separate from any Japanese romanization or surname sense. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name or explicitly linked root entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F&oldid=92286961; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented relationship, root or language-specific reading and retained its qualifiers. No audio, images, literary quotations or biographical passage reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Shimon is explicitly a transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן. The linked Simeon entry gives listening/hearkening for the same Hebrew name. The licensed son-of-Simon gloss is not corroborated and is not presented as a literal meaning or a statement about a child’s parentage. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name entries and the cited revisions. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Simeon&oldid=93542306. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed explicit naming relationships and lexical explanations, retaining separate spellings and excluding surname statistics; no images or audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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This describes the given-name route. The same Latin spelling also has surname use; surname frequencies and etymological claims are not imported into the baby-name record. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name entries and the cited revisions. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed explicit naming relationships and lexical explanations, retaining separate spellings and excluding surname statistics; no images or audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The exact Hebrew entry labels this separate traditional reading. It is not substituted for the Modern Israeli or English reading of the name. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name or explicitly linked root entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F&oldid=92286961; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented relationship, root or language-specific reading and retained its qualifiers. No audio, images, literary quotations or biographical passage reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Hebrew personal-name entry records both stress patterns. The parenthesized glottal stop is optional in the first reading. Neither is silently classified as an English pronunciation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name or explicitly linked root entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F&oldid=92286961; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented relationship, root or language-specific reading and retained its qualifiers. No audio, images, literary quotations or biographical passage reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The exact Hebrew entry labels this separate traditional reading, including the pharyngeal consonant. It is not converted into invented English phonetics. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name or explicitly linked root entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F&oldid=92286961; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented relationship, root or language-specific reading and retained its qualifiers. No audio, images, literary quotations or biographical passage reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The English entry records transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן. The original script is retained in the source; no unreviewed English pronunciation or literal gloss is supplied.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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The exact Shimon given-name entry links its translations to Simeon, which records the same Hebrew name through Greek and Latin. These are separate spellings with separate popularity records and potentially different pronunciation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name entries and the cited revisions. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Simeon&oldid=93542306. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names condensed explicit naming relationships and lexical explanations, retaining separate spellings and excluding surname statistics; no images or audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Hebrew personal-name entry identifies Simon as an English equivalent. The exact English Simon entry also records other Greek and Germanic histories, so this Hebrew relationship is not imposed on every Simon. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact personal-name or explicitly linked root entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F&oldid=92286961; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Shimon&oldid=83831840; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Simon&oldid=93542307. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the documented relationship, root or language-specific reading and retained its qualifiers. No audio, images, literary quotations or biographical passage reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
