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simmons Name Meaning and History

English (southern): patronymic either from the personal name Simon (see Simon) or, as Reaney and Wilson suggest, from the medieval personal name Simund (composed of Old Norse sig ‘victory’ + mundr ‘protection’), which after the Norman Conquest was taken as an equivalent Simon, with the result that the two names became confused.

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Distribution of simmons Families in the US in 1920
Number of simmons families
 811-1619
 271-810
 1-270
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