Symone
Feminine · “he has heard”
Symone is a respelling of Simone, and the Hebrew name behind it is about hearing — Leah names her son because God has heard that she was unloved.
How old is the name Symone?
Symone first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Symone alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 4,300 people named Symone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Symone most popular?
Symone peaked in 1991, reaching #759 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, 3,413 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
Where it comes from
From Shim'on to Symone
The story of Symone
Shim'on is one of Jacob's sons and the name of an apostle before he is renamed Peter. French made the women's form Simone, which Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil both carried in the twentieth century. Symone with a y is an American respelling that appears in the records from the 1970s and is used chiefly in African-American families.
Meaning
he has heard
From Hebrew shama, to hear; Genesis gives the naming directly, with Leah saying the Lord has heard that she was hated. The same verb opens the Shema, the central declaration of Jewish prayer.
How the name formed
- Shim'on
- Simone
- Symone
Related forms: Simone · Shim'on · Simona
Pronouncing Symone
sih-MOHN
Two syllables with the stress on the second. Symone and Simone are said identically.
Nicknames for Symone
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
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 1991271 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #759reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- −5.6%34 in 2025, from 36
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.
Symone in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Simone in French — spelling variant
- Shim'on in Hebrew — related form
- Simona in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Symones among us
people named Symone are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Symone
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Symone
- #4172
- Symone on the 2025 chart
- #679
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Symone went to 34 girls in 2025, but Simone 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 — 3,493 places above the chart.
- Simone254
- Symone34
About 1 girl in 5,581 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,273 for Symone 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 Audry test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Symone's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Audry climbed just as high around 1928, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Audry's path sketches the road Symone is walking now.
Symone 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 Symone is headed
Symone 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.
Symone beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Symone in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that the biblical text explains outright.
- Mona is a complete short form in its own right.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Simone is the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- It is close to Simone, Symphony and Salome in an American ear.
- The y makes an old name look like a modern coinage.
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Frequently asked
- How many Symones are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,300 people named Symone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Symone?
- Symone is one of 2 recorded spellings. Simone is the more common one — 254 births in 2025 against 34 for Symone.
- How popular is the name Symone in 2025?
- Symone ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Symone?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Symone — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Symone with classmates?
- Symone will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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