Simon

in Alabama

There are 634 people with the last name "Simon" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Simon 980
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  1. is 976th most common Boothe
  2. is 977th most common Billingsley
  3. is 978th most common Britton
  4. is 979th most common Bagwell
  5. is 980th most common Simon
  6. is 981st most common Overstreet
  7. is 982nd most common Lawley
  8. is 983rd most common Blount
  9. is 984th most common Dunlap

Most Common First Names for Simon

David, Charles, Dorothy, Mary, John, Johnny, Michael, Thomas, Andrew, Elizabeth



Meaning & History

English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish (Simón), Czech and Slovak (Šimon), Slovenian, Hungarian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name, Hebrew Shim‘on, which is probably derived from the verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament, this is usually rendered Simeon. In the Greek New Testament, however, the name occurs as Simōn, as a result of assimilation to the preexisting Greek byname Sīmōn (from sīmos ‘snub-nosed’). Both Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former was always more popular, at least in part because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter, the brother of Andrew. In Britain there was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of Sigmund (see Siegmund), a name whose popularity was reinforced at the Conquest by the Norman form Simund.

FOREBEARS The earliest documented bearer of the surname Simon in New France came from the Saintonge region of France and was in Montreal by 1655. Another, from Paris, is recorded in Quebec City in 1659 with the secondary surname Lapointe.


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