Szymon
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Szymon is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 100th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Simon.
- PLPoland1 in 156◐
- ATAustria1 in 215
- SESweden1 in 250
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈989K ●
- #452 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 495 ●
- 1 in 156 ◐
across 13 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.6M records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Simon in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AR Argentina and 20 more, Семен in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Simoen in FR France and Simeon in BG Bulgaria.
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●
a male given name, equivalent to English Simon
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #100 | 949,905 | 358K rec. | — | #57 | Семен | 162 |
| GB United Kingdom | #72 | 481,460 | 328K rec. | — | 3 | Simon | 337 |
| AR Argentina | #321 | 344,862 | 209K rec. | — | 8.1K | Simon | 109 |
| BR Brazil | — | 323,710△ | 9.2K rec. | 1 in 654 | 340K | Simon | 138 |
| PL Poland | #61 | 244,928△ | 40K rec. | 1 in 156 | 245K | Szymon | 201 |
| VE Venezuela | #104 | 234,310 | 87K rec. | — | — | Simon | 85 |
| AU Australia | #92 | 229,812 | 174K rec. | — | 1 | Simon | 329 |
| FR France | — | 220,060△ | 844 rec. | 1 in 308 | 220K | Simoen | 72 |
| UA Ukraine | #127 | 194,308 | 203K rec. | — | listed | Семен | 46 |
| DE Germany | #189 | 143,417 | 184K rec. | — | 2 | Simon | 285 |
| PE Peru | #276 | 119,088 | 144K rec. | — | — | Simon | 57 |
| MX Mexico | #369 | 99,021 | 122K rec. | — | — | Simon | 163 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish1.1M99%
- English4.6K1%
- German2.7K1%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.9K1%
- French1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,135,798 | 99% |
| English | 4,589 | 1% |
| German | 2,674 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,862 | 1% |
| French | 1,193 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Szymon 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 Polish, Simon
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Polish form of SIMON .
as a word
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 4 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 14 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 19 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 17 |
| 1994 | 12 |
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 13 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 49 years between 1975–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Petrusb. 1ILnot in their usual nameapostle of Jesus Christ
- Szymon Szymonowicb. 1558UAPolish writer (1558-1629)
- S. An-skyb. 1863PLnot in their usual nameRussian Jewish author (1863-1920)
- Szymon Askenazyb. 1866PLPolish historian and statesman (1866-1935)
- Emil Młynarskib. 1870PLnot in their usual namePolish conductor, violinist, composer and pedagogue (1870–1935)
- Szymon Hołowniab. 1976PLPolish politician, journalist and writer (born 1976)
- Szymon Ziółkowskib. 1976PLPolish hammer thrower
- Szymon Marciniakb. 1981PLPolish football referee
- Szymon Kołeckib. 1981PLPolish weightlifter
- Kacper Kozłowskib. 2003PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
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 42 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 345 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Szymon?
- We estimate roughly 989 thousand people bear Szymon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Szymon have the most bearers?
- Szymon is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled семен.
- Where is Szymon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Szymon is densest in Poland — about 1 in 156 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Szymon compared with other names?
- In Russia, Szymon is the 100th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Szymon a male or female name?
- Szymon is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Szymon mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Simon
Query this name via API
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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, “Szymon” — the 100th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.