Simo

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 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◐

Simo is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name70K records spelled Simo118 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, France, Spain, Italy

  Languages: French, Spanish, Italian

  Also written Simó, Sîmô, Simô, Sîmo, Sïmô

• English given name41K records spelled Simo178 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Italy, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Simó, Sîmô, Simoe, Šimo, Simô

• Arabic given name25K records spelled Simo14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, Italy, Israel, Egypt

  Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

  Also written סימו, Simô, ሲሞ, Sįmo, Şimo

• Swahili given name25K records spelled Simo6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, Italy, South Africa, Spain

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Simó, Simô, Şimo

• Hindi given name15K records spelled Simo20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, India, Italy, Spain

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Simó, Sïmo, Si-Mo, Šímő, Simô

• Khmer given name11K records spelled Simo5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, India, Finland, South Africa

  Also written Simŏ, Šímo, Simö, Simó

• Croatian given name11K records spelled Simo55 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Morocco

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

  Also written Šimo, Симо, Šîmô, Šïmö, Śimo

• Indonesian given name9.8K records spelled Simo40 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, Italy, Spain, Finland

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Sïmo, Simó, Sïmö, Sïmõ, Şimo

• Estonian given name5.0K records spelled Simo35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Morocco, Estonia, Italy, Spain

  Also written Sîmõ, Šimõ, Simõ, Șïmo, Sïmõ

46 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●

Simo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, a male given name, character in the play Mostellaria of Plautus

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Zulu, simple singular of ísimó

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In ss, state, condition, status

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Serbo-Croatian, hither, here, this way

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, snub-nosed

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Simo Häyhäb. 1905FIFinnish military sniper (1905–2002)
• Simo Puupponenb. 1915FIFinnish writer and journalist (1915-1967)
• Simo Ristab. 1933FIFinnish photographer (1933–2021)
• Simo Parpolab. 1943FIFinnish assyriologist (1943-)
• Simo Mogwazab. 1960ZAactor
• Simo Saarinenb. 1963FIFinnish ice hockey player
• Simo Krunićb. 1967BABosnian football player and manager (born 1967)
• Simo Valakarib. 1973FIFinnish footballer
• Simo Runnelb. 1977EEEstonian historian (born 1977)
• Simo Keddarib. 2005ESSpanish footballer

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 · 214 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Simo?

We estimate roughly 12 thousand people bear Simo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Simo have the most bearers?

We estimate about 9.9 thousand people bear Simo in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled simo.

Where is Simo most common?

Simo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 560 people carrying it.

How common is Simo compared with other names?

In Finland, Simo is the 269th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.

Is Simo a male or female name?

Simo 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 Simo mean?

Recorded meaning: [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Mu locative class|mu class_((XVIII))]] object of si-; it is not inside there