Simran
Simran was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,081 among girls’ names; 3,000 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,960 Americans named Simran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Simran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Simran mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Simran is “a unisex given name from Punjabi.”
Derived from Punjabi ਸਿਮਰਨ (simran). Doublet of simran.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Simran?
#5,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Simran fell from #2,552 in 2015 to #5,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 16.2 per million.
165 babies in 2000, the peak
Simran peaked in 2000, when 165 babies were given it (155 girls, #1,262 among girls’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,081 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,102 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,545 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,657 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,818 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,770 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,124 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,389 | 27.6 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,188 | 29.5 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,616 | 38.4 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,552 | 39.8 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,610 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,383 | 43.9 |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,897 | 34.1 |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,067 | 53.4 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,200 | 50.1 |
| 2009 | 128 | #1,725 | 69.7 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,924 | 58.2 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,634 | 71.3 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,795 | 61.0 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,702 | 63.3 |
| 2004 | 143 | #1,441 | 77.9 |
| 2003 | 152 | #1,340 | 83.2 |
| 2002 | 143 | #1,361 | 79.6 |
| 2001 | 158 | #1,251 | 87.7 |
| 2000 | 155 | #1,262 | 85.4 |
| 1999 | 125 | #1,413 | 70.5 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,318 | 76.4 |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,324 | 75.3 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,717 | 50.2 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,490 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,672 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,908 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,441 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,974 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,818 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,664 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,605 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,678 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,404 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,237 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,865 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,324 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Simran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,000 Americans recorded as Simran, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 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 Simran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Simran, and how old are they?
2,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,000 Americans ever recorded as Simran. The median Simran alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,936 people named Simran (3,660 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 298 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 620 |
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 Simran born?
The states with the most babies named Simran are California, New York and New Jersey, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 792 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 317 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 216 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 151 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 117 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 40 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Simran is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Simran is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 2.5 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 Simran 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,189 babies since 1880, Simran is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 26 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Simran
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 Simran and names like it
- Compare Simran and SimrinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSimran peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Simran since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Simran.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Simran alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.