Simone

Girl or boy · Hebrew

Simone

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Meaning

The French feminine and the Italian masculine form of Simon, from Hebrew Shim'on, usually linked to shama 'he has heard'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Popular in France in the 1920s–30s and showing some revival.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 1980s

In the United States

26,649 babies given this name since 1908
At its height in 1988, about 1 in 2,200 girls
306 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

Italian	Simona
English	Simon
French	Simone

Famous bearers

Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Veil
Simone Martini, Sienese painter

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Where this comes from

Well-known works of literature
National birth statistics of European countries source
The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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