as a Last Name
- 222,803
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Simmons
Meaning & Origins
English (southern): patronymic either from the personal name Simon (see Simon) or, as Reaney and Wilson suggest, from the medieval personal name Simund (composed of Old Norse sig ‘victory’ + mundr ‘protection’), which after the Norman Conquest was taken as an equivalent Simon, with the result that the two names became confused.
| 102nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 222,803
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Simmons per capita
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