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Simon Name Meaning
English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish (Simón), Czech and Slovak
(Šimon), Slovenian, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from
the personal name, Hebrew Shim‘on, which is probably derived
from the verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many
vernacular versions of the Old Testament, this is usually rendered
Simeon. In the Greek New Testament, however, the name occurs as
Simon, as a result of assimilation to the pre-existing Greek
byname Simon (from simos ‘snub-nosed’). Both
Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in
western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former
was always more popular, at least in part because of its associations
with the apostle Simon Peter, the brother of Andrew. In Britain there
was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of
Sigmund (see Siegmund), a name whose popularity was
reinforced at the Conquest by the Norman form Simund.
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Name Distribution of Simon Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Simon families
 843 - 1,683  282 - 842 |
 1 - 281  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Simon families
|
133 - 264 45 - 132 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Simon families
|
24 - 46 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Simon Family Origin
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