Simon

Where Simon comes from

From Middle English Simon, Symond, Symounde, from Anglo-Norman Simon, Simond, Simund, a conflation of two unrelated names: one from Latin Simon, from Koine Greek Σίμων (Símōn), strictly from Ancient Greek—likely σῑμός (sīmós, “snub-nosed”)—but used for Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn), doublet of Simeon; the other from Old Norse Sigmundr or Old English Siġemund, both from Proto-Germanic *Sigimunduz (literally “Protector of victory”), whence also Sigmund and Siegmund.
— Wiktionary's entry for Simon
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #154 among boys — 88 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #139
    97 babies named Simon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1925
    Simon van der Meer born
    Dutch physicist
  4. 1970
    Simon Pegg born
    English actor
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Simon Pegg · English actor, born 1970
  • Simon van der Meer · Dutch physicist, 1925–2011
  • Simon Wiesenthal · Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, 1908–2005
  • Simon Kuznets · Russian-born American economist and statistician, 1901–1985
  • Simon Mignolet · Belgian association football player, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.