Shimon
#960 for boys in 2025, 241 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 255 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,492since 1947
Shimon over time
Rank among boys' names. Shimon has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #960 | 241 |
| 2024 | #915 | 255 |
| 2023 | #1,000 | 220 |
| 2022 | #1,119 | 190 |
| 2021 | #1,050 | 204 |
| 2020 | #1,017 | 204 |
| 2019 | #1,091 | 183 |
| 2018 | #1,052 | 193 |
| 2017 | #1,095 | 178 |
| 2016 | #1,073 | 184 |
| 2015 | #1,134 | 167 |
| 2014 | #1,117 | 171 |
| 2013 | #1,162 | 155 |
| 2012 | #1,115 | 165 |
| 2011 | #1,073 | 174 |
| 2010 | #1,159 | 159 |
| 2009 | #1,045 | 182 |
| 2008 | #1,303 | 133 |
| 2007 | #1,323 | 129 |
| 2006 | #1,289 | 129 |
| 2005 | #1,296 | 118 |
| 2004 | #1,349 | 108 |
| 2003 | #1,381 | 97 |
| 2002 | #1,543 | 80 |
| 2001 | #1,298 | 101 |
| 2000 | #1,401 | 89 |
| 1999 | #1,560 | 71 |
| 1998 | #1,642 | 63 |
| 1997 | #1,378 | 80 |
| 1996 | #1,434 | 72 |
| 1995 | #1,380 | 73 |
| 1994 | #1,495 | 63 |
| 1993 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #1,621 | 54 |
| 1991 | #1,823 | 43 |
| 1990 | #1,547 | 54 |
| 1989 | #1,678 | 46 |
| 1988 | #1,768 | 39 |
| 1987 | #1,709 | 39 |
| 1986 | #1,617 | 40 |
| 1985 | #1,429 | 47 |
| 1984 | #1,581 | 38 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 30 |
| 1981 | #2,338 | 21 |
| 1980 | #2,003 | 27 |
| 1979 | #1,991 | 26 |
| 1978 | #1,718 | 31 |
| 1977 | #2,131 | 22 |
| 1976 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #1,787 | 27 |
| 1974 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #2,539 | 11 |
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| 1961 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #3,037 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shimon! It came in at #3,733, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shimon is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#401 · 1 in 4,214
Best ever in a state: #101 in New York, 2024.
Show every state
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| New York | #401 | 29 | 1 in 4,214 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shimon
- 45 spots since 2024 (#915 → #960)
- 57 spots since 2020 (#1,017 → #960)
- 174 spots since 2015 (#1,134 → #960)
- Biggest jump: 119 spots in 2023 (#1,119 → #1,000)
- Biggest drop: 45 spots in 2025 (#915 → #960)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2024 at #915 (255 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2023–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,756 boys born in 2024 were named Shimon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,087 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 31.5% of all boys named Shimon (1,729) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,733 (1947) | #3,733 |
| 1950s | 40 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,366 |
| 1960s | 76 | #2,538 (1961) | #3,054 |
| 1970s | 198 | #1,718 (1978) | #2,325 |
| 1980s | 344 | #1,429 (1985) | #1,865 |
| 1990s | 620 | #1,378 (1997) | #1,567 |
| 2000s | 1,166 | #1,045 (2009) | #1,323 |
| 2010s | 1,729 | #1,052 (2018) | #1,107 |
| 2020s | 1,314 | #915 (2024) | #1,010 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shimon in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 46,038 of them was named Shimon, which outranked 79.3% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,588Vijay41
- #1,588Vu41
- #1,588Wardell41
- #1,617Shimon40
- #1,617Ambrose40
- #1,617Brantley40
- #1,617Christophe40
- #1,645Adolph39
- #1,645Anwar39
- #1,645Augustus39
Tied with 27 names at #1,617; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.