girls:
25 births since 1977
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.1k births since 1880
#1240 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.1k births since 1880
#2829 (63rd percentile)
The name Simeon is the #2,829 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,093 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 63.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,240 (73.0% percentile) for all time with 9,068 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1977.
Simeon has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1977 for girls). Birth data for Simeon is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Simeon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Simeon reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 24.9% percentile (ranked #620) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 194 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Simeon ranks #737 for boys (19.1% percentile) with 98 births per million, which is 50.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Simeon reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Simeon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Simeon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Simeon is pronounced as SIH-mee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sih-MEE-uhn, at 9.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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