Simonne
Feminine · “He has heard”
Simonne is the French feminine of a Hebrew name that Greek speakers heard as one of their own words — a collision of two languages that happened two thousand years ago and has never been sorted out.
How old is the name Simonne?
Simonne first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Simonne alive today was born around 1942, making them about 83 years old. About 500 people named Simonne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Simonne most popular?
Simonne peaked in 1916, reaching #1630 nationally. See the whole 1916 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Shimon to Simonne
The story of Simonne
The French feminine of the name belongs, for most readers, to one woman. Simone de Beauvoir spent three years on a book that set out to answer what she thought was a small question about what it had meant to be a woman in her own life, and produced a nine-hundred-page argument that one is not born a woman but becomes one — which reframed the subject for everybody who came after. The Vatican put it on the index of forbidden books. She refused the label feminist for two decades afterward, on the grounds that the problem was economic and would be solved by other means, and then changed her mind in public and said so.
Meaningscholars disagree
He has heard
The Hebrew name Shimon is built on a verb about hearing. But Greek already had a word that sounded almost the same, meaning snub-nosed, and Greek-speaking Jews writing the name in Greek letters used that existing word — so the form that reached Europe is a Hebrew name wearing a Greek word's clothes, and which one a given ancient bearer meant is often impossible to say.
How the name formed
- Shimon
- Simon
- Simone
- Simonne
Related forms: Simone · Simona · Simona
Pronouncing Simonne
see-MOHN
Two syllables with the stress at the back in French. Americans often say sih-MOH-nee, giving it three.
Nicknames for Simonne
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
- 1909
- Most girls named
- 191622 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1630reached in 1916
- Change vs 2018
- 0.0%5 in 2021, from 5
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.
Simonne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Simone in French — same name
- Simona in Italian — same name
- Simona in Spanish — same name
Simonnes among us
people named Simonne are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Simonne sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The name is elegant, international and carried by women worth being named after.
- The back stress gives it a strong finish.
- It has forms across Europe that a traveler would recognize.
- Simone is the standard spelling and the doubled n will be dropped constantly.
- Americans add a syllable that French does not have.
- The spelling is recorded for both sexes, and the boys' share is small but real.
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Frequently asked
- How many Simonnes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Simonne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Simonne in 2025?
- Simonne is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Simonne with classmates?
- Simonne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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