Simeon

Meaning: Listening, hearkening
Origin: Hebrew

Nicknames: Sim

Boy's name · #1094 in the US (2025) · Vintage

Popularity over time

Simeon belongs to an older America first — it reached #360 back in 1880 — yet it still appears in today's records at #1094. About 9,500 boys have carried it since 1880.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 19 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#393 in France (2025) · #587 in Austria (2025) · #621 in Switzerland (2025) · #738 in Netherlands (2025) · #848 in Belgium (2025) · #943 in Canada (2025) · #1,066 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,144 in Sweden (2025) · #4,681 in Italy (2024) · #8,271 in Ecuador (2022) · #418 in N. Ireland (2019) · #180 in Slovakia (2013) and 3 more.

Famous Simeons

Siméon Denis Poisson — French mathematician and physicist (1781–1840)
Simeon II of Bulgaria — Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946, Prime Minister from 2001 to 2005 (born 1937)
Simeon I of Bulgaria — First Emperor of the Bulgars from 893 to 927
Simeon of Moscow — Russian ruler (1317–1353) (1316–1353)
Simeon Stylites — Syrian Christian ascetic (c. 390–459)
Simeon Bekbulatovich — Russian figurehead ruler (1600–1616)

In stories & tradition

Simeon — Biblical figure and son of Jacob and Leah
Siméon — Operatic character in the opera Polyeucte by Charles Gounod; an aged Christian.

What Simeons become

Among 481 notable people named Simeon:

Lawyers & judges appear 1.73× more often than among typical names — e.g. Simeon Eben Baldwin, American judge (1840–1927).

Similar names: Zack · Seamus · Ephraim · Judson · Salomon · Shimon

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