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Listening, in the Hebrew Shimon name tradition.
Simon’s biblical route shares the Hebrew source of Simeon, whose entry supplies the listening interpretation. The English history also records a separate Greek name, likely associated with snub-nosed, and a Germanic Sigmund route. These are not assigned one universal meaning.
English name with Hebrew/Greek transmission and a separate Germanic name history.
The exact entry describes Middle English and Anglo-Norman forms conflating a Greek name used for Hebrew Shimon with a Sigmund-related name. The biblical Hebrew tradition is retained without erasing the other documented route.
/ˈsaɪmən/
Recorded English personal-name reading, approximately SY-mun, with first-syllable stress.
Recorded English reading, as published. Accents and preferred pronunciations can differ.
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 | 2000 | Girls | 5 | 2491 | 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 Unpublished values are unknown, not zero.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. |
| Canada | 2025 | Boys | 196 · preliminary | 173 | 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 Unpublished values are unknown, not zero.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 | 2006 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 6304 | 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. |
| France | 2025 | Boys | 1,055 (rounded to 5) | 50 | 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 | 63 | 606 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Northern Ireland | 2022 | Boys | 5 | 311 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2024 | Boys | 5 | 535 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2025 | Boys | 19 | 244 | Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2019 | Girls | 6 | 13799 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
| United States | 2025 | Boys | 1,529 | 230 | 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 section explicitly documents given-name use. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Simon entries. Sources: 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 name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations 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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Simon’s biblical route shares the Hebrew source of Simeon, whose entry supplies the listening interpretation. The English history also records a separate Greek name, likely associated with snub-nosed, and a Germanic Sigmund route. These are not assigned one universal meaning. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Simon, Simeon entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Simon&oldid=93542307; 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 summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations 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.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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The exact entry describes Middle English and Anglo-Norman forms conflating a Greek name used for Hebrew Shimon with a Sigmund-related name. The biblical Hebrew tradition is retained without erasing the other documented route. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Simon, Simeon entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Simon&oldid=93542307; 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 summarized the documented name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations 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.
CC BY-SA 4.0
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Recorded English personal-name reading, approximately SY-mun, with first-syllable stress. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Simon entries. Sources: 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 name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations 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 and English entries establish this relationship for the Hebrew-linked Simon tradition. Other Simon histories and their meanings remain distinct. 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=Simon&oldid=93542307; 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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Related English forms with a shared linguistic source; not interchangeable spellings or a nickname claim. Popularity counts remain separate.
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 English entry records a French-linked feminine Simon form, and the Italian section records a masculine equivalent of English Simon. These language traditions keep separate spelling-specific counts.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Two syllables in the documented English reading. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Simon entries. Sources: 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 name route or language-specific relationship. No source audio, images or quotations 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: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
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: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
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.
