Simi
Simi was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,964 among girls’ names; 551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Simi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Simi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Simi is “a diminutive of the female given name Simrita.”
Also “a diminutive of the unisex given name Simran.”
Likely formed with -i (suffix forming diminutives of given names).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Simi?
#3,964 among girls’ names, 2025
Simi rose from #7,563 in 2015 to #3,964 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 23.0 per million.
37 babies in 2025, the peak
Simi peaked in 2025, when 37 girls were given it, #3,964 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 35 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,964 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,200 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,376 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,182 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,919 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,288 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,432 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,872 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,272 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,929 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,563 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,004 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,096 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,144 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,561 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,640 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,401 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,991 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,037 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,180 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,363 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,180 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,634 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,138 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,124 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,503 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,870 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,697 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,393 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,125 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,143 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,941 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,591 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,986 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,551 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,885 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,210 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,044 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,219 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,199 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,874 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,433 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Simi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 551 Americans recorded as Simi, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 37 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Simi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Simi, and how old are they?
An estimated 544 Americans named Simi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,112 people named Simi (992 women and girls, 120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Simi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 26 | #654 | 6.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,331 | 0.9× |
Where Simi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Simi is most over-represented in New York: since 1962 it was given 6.5 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 girls’ 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 Simi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,132 babies since 1880, Simi is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 173 babies (21%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Simi
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 Simi and names like it
- Compare Simi and SimaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSimi peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Simi since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Simi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Simi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.