Simcha
Simcha was given to 94 boys in 2025, #1,741 among boys’ names; 2,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Simcha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Simcha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Simcha?
#1,741 among boys’ names, 2025
Simcha rose from #2,084 in 2015 to #1,741 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 35.5 to 55.0 per million.
99 babies in 2025, the peak
Simcha peaked in 2025, when 99 babies were given it (94 boys, #1,741 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 74 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,929 | 94 | #1,741 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 74 | #2,055 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,270 | 63 | #2,270 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,093 | 71 | #2,112 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,205 | 74 | #2,022 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 69 | #2,064 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 86 | #1,803 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,407 | 78 | #1,916 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 52 | #2,484 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 58 | #2,301 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,742 | 68 | #2,084 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 53 | #2,423 | |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,991 | 52 | #2,416 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,164 | 60 | #2,202 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,187 | 55 | #2,334 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,716 | 44 | #2,780 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 51 | #2,514 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,641 | 42 | #2,872 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,532 | 40 | #2,965 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,513 | 48 | #2,534 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,294 | 45 | #2,518 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,569 | 40 | #2,681 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,240 | 40 | #2,570 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,756 | 25 | #3,537 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,270 | 35 | #2,725 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,759 | 22 | #3,734 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 29 | #2,924 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,176 | 18 | #3,984 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,254 | 37 | #2,300 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,535 | 21 | #3,378 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,660 | 34 | #2,336 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,205 | 39 | #2,114 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,626 | 41 | #1,994 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,564 | 32 | #2,348 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 14 | #4,184 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 19 | #3,286 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,553 | 20 | #3,068 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 26 | #2,346 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 14 | #3,478 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 14 | #3,413 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 11 | #4,010 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 13 | #3,425 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 13 | #3,390 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 12 | #3,658 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 12 | #3,580 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 11 | #3,812 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,028 | 15 | #3,002 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,778 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 9 | #4,110 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 12 | #3,238 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,214 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 7 | #4,571 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,436 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,911 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,615 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,932 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 5 | #4,456 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,892 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,869 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,977 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,527 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,496 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,515 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 9 | #2,938 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Simcha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,236 Americans recorded as Simcha, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 94 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Simcha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Simcha, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,236 Americans ever recorded as Simcha. The median Simcha alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,715 people named Simcha (253 women and girls, 1,462 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,742 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 23 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 112 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 365 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 748 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 932 |
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 Simcha born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 51 | #349 | 9.4× |
| New Jersey | 35 | #267 | 5.0× |
Where Simcha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Simcha is most over-represented in New York: since 1956 it was given 9.4 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 Simcha 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 Simcha
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 Simcha and names like it
- Compare Simcha and DenizBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSimcha peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Simcha since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Simcha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Simcha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.