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Simon

in Texas

There are 4,329 people with the last name "Simon" in Texas.

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Ranking in Texas

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Simon 485
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  1. is 481st most common Snyder
  2. is 482nd most common Powers
  3. is 483rd most common Quintanilla
  4. is 484th most common Hines
  5. is 485th most common Simon
  6. is 486th most common Strickland
  7. is 487th most common Bowman
  8. is 488th most common Allison
  9. is 489th most common Hanson

Most Common First Names for Simon

John, James, Robert, Michael, Mary, David, William, Charles, Thomas, Richard

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.

Recent Searches for "Simon" in Texas

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