The SIMON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	74,839	383	0.028	277
United States (1880 census)	9,071	662	0.018	181
Change since 1880	+65768	+279	+0.01	+96
Other Countries
Australia	1,535	1067	0.009	94
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SIMON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	7,098	439	0.021	210
New York	6,130	225	0.032	323
Florida	5,957	287	0.037	373
Louisiana	4,877	91	0.109	1,091
Texas	4,808	522	0.023	231
Top States for SIMON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	4,877	91	0.109	1,091
South Dakota	342	142	0.045	453
Washington DC	255	217	0.045	446
Minnesota	1,925	188	0.039	391
New Jersey	3,163	197	0.038	376

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SIMON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SIMON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SIMON in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SIMON by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SIMON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SIMON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SIMON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SIMON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	486	0.65
White (Caucasian)	52,342	69.94
Black/African American	15,679	20.95
White (Hispanic)	3,487	4.66
Asian/Pacific	1,482	1.98
Mixed Race	1,370	1.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SIMON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to SIMON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SIMON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.