Given name & surname
Symon
“God has heard”
Symon is a variant of Simon. One Hebrew interpretation is “God has heard.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Symon is a variant of Simon. One Hebrew interpretation is “God has heard.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Symon is a variant of Simon. An origin associated with Simon is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿōn, “hearkening”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Symon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 491
- 481 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,167 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,167 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 25.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 537 as a first name in 2020; 482 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Symon’s family of names
Symon has a related form in Simon. In Belarusian usage, Symon is a transliteration of Сымон.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Symon
- Symon PetliuraUkrainian military leader (1879–1926)
- Symon Rak-MichajłoŭskiBelarusian politician, journalist1885–1938
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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