Simon

From Middle English Simon, from Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”). In Britain, confusion arose at an early date due to similarity with native Sigmund (Siegmund), and its Norman introduced variant, Simund. Doublet of Simeon.

• enPR: sīm'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪmən/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmən

Simon (plural Simons)

1. Name of any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 10:2–4, columns 2–1:

     Now the names of the twelue Apoſtles are theſe: The firſt, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, Iames the ſonne of Zebedee, and Iohn his brother: Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the Publicane, Iames the ſonne of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whoſe ſurname was Thaddeus: Simon the Canaanite, and Iudas Iſcariot, who alſo betrayed him.

2. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 1996, Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 379:

     His first name is Simon. I wonder why his mother named him that, or it may have been his father. My own father never bothered with the naming of us, it was up to Mother and Aunt Pauline. There is Simon Peter the Apostle, of course, who was made a fisher of men by our Lord. But there is also Simple Simon. Met a pie man, going to the fair.

3. A surname originating as a patronymic.
   • 2016, Vanessa Knights, Ian Biddle, Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location, page 52:

     Western musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Sting, Paul Simon and David Byrne

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Simon is the 397^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 80,460 individuals. Simon is most common among White (65.09%) and Black (22.51%) individuals.

• Peter

Simon (plural Simons)

1. Alternative letter-case form of simon (“sixpence coin”).
   • 1721, [Colley] Cibber, The Refusal; or, The Ladies Philosophy: A Comedy. […], London: […] B[arnaby Bernard] Lintot, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […], →OCLC, Act I, pages 9–10:

     […] I ovve Crop the Lender a Brace, and if I have a ſingle Simon to pay him, rot me: […]

• Minos, minos, omnis

Simon m

1. a male given name

From English Simon. Also from Spanish Simón.

Simon

1. a male given name from English or Spanish
2. (biblical) Simon

Simon

1. Simon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

• (female given name) Simone
• (surname) Simonsen

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 551 males with the given name Simon have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsimon/, [ˈs̠imo̞n]
• Rhymes: -imon
• Syllabification^(key): Si‧mon
• Hyphenation^(key): Si‧mon

From Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn).

Simon

1. Simon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

• Simo

• Simon is the 312^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,290 male individuals (and as a middle name to 480 more), and also belongs as a middle name to 8 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Simon

1. genitive singular of Simo

• somin

• IPA^(key): /si.mɔ̃/

Simon m

1. Simon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name
3. a surname originating as a patronymic

• (feminine form): Simone

• moins

• IPA^(key): /ˈziːmɔn/

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Simon m (proper noun, strong, genitive Simons)

1. Simon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

Simon m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Simons or (with an article) Simon, feminine genitive Simon, plural Simons)

1. a surname originating as a patronymic

• Simone f

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃimon]
• Hyphenation: Si‧mon
• Rhymes: -on

Simon

1. a male given name

From Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsimon/ [ˈsi.mɔn]
• Rhymes: -imon
• Syllabification: Si‧mon

Simon

1. (biblical) Simon: Name of any of a number of men in the New Testament, notably the original name of Apostle Peter

• “Simon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), itself from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (Šimʿōn)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.moːn], [ˈsɪ.mɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.mon]

Simō̆n m sg (genitive Simō̆nis); third declension

1. a Christian male given name from Biblical Hebrew

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• → Italian: Simone

From Latin Simon, from Ancient Greek Σίμων (Símōn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”). Compare also sī̆mō̆n.

• IPA^(key): /siˈmɔːn/, /ˈsiːmɔn/

Simon

1. a male given name

• English: Simon
• Yola: Zimoon, Zimaan

• “Simon”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Simon

1. Simon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

• Simen

• IPA^(key): /sǐmon/

Sìmon m anim (Cyrillic spelling Сѝмон)

1. a male given name

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• “Simon”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

• IPA^(key): /síːmɔn/

Sȋmon m anim

1. a male given name

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	Simon
gen. sing.	Simona
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Simon	Simona	Simoni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Simona	Simonov	Simonov
dative (dajȃlnik)	Simonu	Simonoma	Simonom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Simona	Simona	Simone
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Simonu	Simonih	Simonih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Simonom	Simonoma	Simoni

• “Simon”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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Simon c (genitive Simons)

1. Simon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

From Latin Simon. Cognate with English Simon.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [si˧˧ mɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧] ~ [sɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧] ~ [sɪj˧˧ mɔŋ˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: si mon

Simon

1. (Roman Catholicism) Simon

• Simôn