Symon
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Symon is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Seltene historische y-Schreibung von Simon; belegt die y/i-Variation.
- KEKenya1 in 6.4K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 69K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 180K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 147 ●
- 1 in 117K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
15K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Сымон in RU Russia.
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●
Seltene historische y-Schreibung von Simon; belegt die y/i-Variation. Bearer count: 7.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #556 | 4,527 | 678 rec. | — | — | Symon | 36 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,428 | 969 rec. | — | — | Symon | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,146 | 1.6K rec. | — | 3 | Symon | 100 |
| AU Australia | — | 770 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1 | Symon | 80 |
| BR Brazil | — | 714△ | 252 rec. | 1 in 297K | 714 | Symon | 51 |
| US United States | — | 501 | 6.3K rec. | 1 in 664K | 501 | Symon | 147 |
| IN India | — | 297 | 374 rec. | — | 82 | Symon | 26 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 212 | 280 rec. | — | — | Symon | 11 |
| MW Malawi | #216 | 207 | 19 rec. | — | — | Symon | 14 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 197 | 980 rec. | — | — | Symon | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 148△ | 70 rec. | 1 in 117K | 148 | Symon | 16 |
| RU Russia | — | 139 | 66 rec. | — | — | Сымон | 33 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese6.9K30%
- English6.2K27%
- Swahili5.1K22%
- Spanish1.5K6%
- French6813%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 6,865 | 30% |
| English | 6,232 | 27% |
| Swahili | 5,136 | 22% |
| Spanish | 1,460 | 6% |
| French | 681 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 16 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 23 |
| 2006 | 26 |
| 2007 | 13 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 21 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 30 |
| 2013 | 22 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 15 |
| 2019 | 12 |
| 2020 | 12 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 10 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 38 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Simon Grynaeusb. 1493DEnot in their usual nameGerman theologian (1493–1541)
- Symon van der Doesb. 1507NLDutch politician (1507-1587)
- Simon van de Moolenb. 1658NLnot in their usual nameDutch scientific instrument maker (1658–1741)
- Symon Petliurab. 1879UAUkrainian military leader (1879–1926)
- Symon Rak-Michajloŭskib. 1885BYBelarusian politician, journalist
- Symon Gouldb. 1894USAmerican politician
- Jack Bruceb. 1943GBnot in their usual nameBritish musician (1943–2014)
- Nour Symonb. 1985CACanadian composer, visual artist, and poet
- Symon M KariukiKEKenyan researcher
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●
Attested in 44 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 714 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 706 | #10,447 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 593 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 501 | #19,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 491 | #41,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 482 | #47,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 481 | #44,653 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 353 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 305 | #19,591 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 305 | #8,709 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 240 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 206 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 141 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Symon?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Symon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Symon have the most bearers?
- Symon is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled symon.
- How common is Symon compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Symon is the 556th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Symon a male or female name?
- Symon 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 Symon mean?
- Recorded meaning: Seltene historische y-Schreibung von Simon; belegt die y/i-Variation.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Symon” — the 556th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.