Simao

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Simao is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name16K records spelled Simao14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Angola, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Western Frisian

  Also written Simão, Simáo, Simaõ, Simäo, Sîmâô

• Swahili given name824 records spelled Simao3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Angola, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Simão

• Catalan given name199 records spelled Simao2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Simão

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Simao is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, city, Russia

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Latvian, pilsēta Ķīnā, Juņnaņas provincē

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Miho Shimaob. 1919JPnot in their usual nameJapanese novelist (1919-2007)
• Jessica Filipe Baiao Simaob. 1994PTPortuguese association football player
• Luna Simaob. 1996DEGerman singer
• Rúben Simãob. 2000PTPortuguese bicycle racer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 117 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Simao?

We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Simao (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Simao have the most bearers?

We estimate about 9.6 thousand people bear Simao in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled simao.

How common is Simao compared with other names?

In Angola, Simao is the 86th most common given name of 9,234 given names recorded there.

Is Simao a male or female name?

Simao is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Simao mean?

Recorded meaning: Simbirsk [Ulyanovsk]