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Simea vs Simona

American parents have registered 4,038 Simonas since 1880, against 71 Simeas. But in 2025 it was Simea that was commoner, 71 babies to 44.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Simea against Simona, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Simea Simona

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 125 years in which either name was published, Simona for 124 years and Simea for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Simea Simona
Total US births 714,038
Most in one year 7167
Babies in 2025 7144
Estimated living today 703,100
Median age today 030
Peak year 20252014
Best rank 2,485th girls2,615th girls
Rank in 2025 2,485th3,459th
First recorded 20251883
Girls / boys 71 / 04,038 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Simonas alive today are over 30; half the Simeas have not had a first birthday. That is 30 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Simea Simona
Switzerland 479872
England and Wales 5599
France 80 Siméa170

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Simea and Simona.