Simone
Feminine · “he has heard”
Simone is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 27,531 girls against 536 boys since 1880. See Simone as a boy name
Simone is the French feminine of Simon, a name meaning he has heard. It was carried by a philosopher who worked on a factory floor, and borrowed by a singer who needed a name her mother would not recognize.
How old is the name Simone?
Simone first appears in US birth records in 1908 — 117 years ago. The typical Simone alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 25,500 people named Simone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Simone most popular?
Simone peaked in 1988, reaching #311 nationally. Today it ranks #995, 684 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
Simone appears on these lists:
- Quiet perennials: a century old, never popular
- French names with effortless chic
- Sports legend names in the records
- Names that work in English and French
- all guides
Works in French families too:
Where it comes from
From Shimon to Simone
The story of Simone
Eunice Waymon, a classically trained pianist playing bars in Atlantic City, took a stage name so her churchgoing mother would not find out: Nina, a pet name, and Simone after the French actress Simone Signoret. As Nina Simone she became one of the great voices of the century. Another Simone, the philosopher Simone Weil, left teaching to work on the assembly lines of a Paris car factory so that she could understand the lives of workers from the inside. The name is recorded for a very few boys, but it is a woman's name everywhere.
Meaning
he has heard, through Simon
Simone is the feminine of Simon, from Hebrew Shimon, he has heard, the name of one of Jacob's sons and of the apostle Peter.
How the name formed
- Shimon
- Simon
- Simone
Related forms: Simone · Simona · Simona
Pronouncing Simone
sih-MOHN
Stress on the second syllable. In French, see-MUN.
Nicknames for Simone
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1908
- Most girls named
- 1989732 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #311reached in 1988
- Change vs 2023
- −11.5%254 in 2025, from 287
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Simone in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Simone in French — same name
- Simona in Italian — same name
- Simona in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Simones among us
people named Simone are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 6,328 born in 2025 was named Simone
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Simone
- #995
- Simone on the 2025 chart
- #679
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Simone went to 254 girls in 2025, but Symone is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 288, which makes it the 679th most-given girls’ name of the year — 316 places above the chart.
- Simone254
- Symone34
About 1 girl in 5,581 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 6,328 for Simone itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kathi test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Simone's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kathi climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kathi's path sketches the road Simone is walking now.
Simone sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Simone is headed
Simone should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Simone beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Simone in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a clear meaning and admired namesakes.
- It is familiar in French and English.
- English and French speakers will say it differently.
- In Italian, Simone is a man's name, which some Italian speakers will point out.
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Feminine · #995 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Simones are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 25,500 people named Simone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Simone?
- Simone is the most-used spelling in US records — 254 of the 288 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Symone.
- How popular is the name Simone in 2025?
- Simone ranks #995 among US girl names in 2025, with 254 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Simone?
- About 1 in every 6,328 US girls born in 2025 was named Simone — 254 in all.
- Will my child share the name Simone with classmates?
- Simone will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Simone
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
Annika#995 · Jaslyn#995 · Scout#995 · Jazmine#992 · Brylee#992 · Kaiya#992 · Corinne#999 · Zoya#1000
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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