Shimon
Shimon was given to 241 boys in 2025, #963 among boys’ names; 5,492 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,360 Americans named Shimon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shimon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shimon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shimon is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Transliteration of Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (shimon).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shimon?
#963 among boys’ names, 2025
Shimon rose from #1,137 in 2015 to #963 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.14 per 1,000.
255 babies in 2024, the peak
Shimon peaked in 2024, when 255 boys were given it, #915 among boys’ names. The 241 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 241 | #963 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 255 | #915 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 220 | #1,001 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 190 | #1,119 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 204 | #1,053 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 204 | #1,021 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 183 | #1,093 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 193 | #1,055 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 178 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 184 | #1,076 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 167 | #1,137 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 171 | #1,125 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,167 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,118 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 174 | #1,077 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 159 | #1,162 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 182 | #1,048 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,316 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 129 | #1,325 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 129 | #1,293 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 118 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,352 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,388 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 80 | #1,552 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,301 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,402 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 71 | #1,569 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 63 | #1,658 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,440 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,386 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 63 | #1,508 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,631 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 43 | #1,855 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 54 | #1,554 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 46 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 39 | #1,784 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 39 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 40 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 47 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 38 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,404 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,046 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,037 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,753 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,196 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,103 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,964 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,328 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,493 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,833 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,353 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,649 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,247 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,240 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,829 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,191 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shimon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shimon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shimon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shimon, and how old are they?
5,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,492 Americans ever recorded as Shimon. The median Shimon alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 3,931 people named Shimon (34 women and girls, 3,897 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 59 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 238 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 689 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,530 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shimon born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 173 | #101 | 11.7× |
| New Jersey | 54 | #186 | 5.2× |
Where Shimon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shimon is most over-represented in New York: since 1947 it was given 11.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shimon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shimon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shimon and names like it
- Compare Shimon and YakovBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShimon peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shimon since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Shimon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Shimon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shimon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.