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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Simon

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#230

up +21 places

2025 births

1,529

up +117 births

All-time births

70,283

2% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2015
1,645 births
Best rank
#142
in 1886
First recorded
1880
#157 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1987
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 20151,645#235Peak
  2. 20141,619#231
  3. 20131,616#229
  4. 20161,558#244
  5. 20251,529#230

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #142 in 1886 · peak births 1,645 in 2015

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

70,283 boys · 161 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Simon has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.