Last Name SIMEON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	he son of Simeon; Kept distant from Simon in early records. Hearing.

Origin	English, Hebrew, Jewish, Russian, Irish, Croatian, Ugandan, Haitian, Creole, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	14,208 (2000 US census)	16,344 (1990 US census)

Count	1,938 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

23.53%, or 456 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
47.83%, or 927 total occurrences, as black,
13.16%, or 255 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
4.08%, or 79 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
5.47%, or 106 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
5.93%, or 115 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Double-barrelled surnames

Can you lose your identity in a double-barrelled surname?

So, you are getting married and thinking about creating a double-barrel surname from yours and your future spouse’s surnames. Maybe there is another reason you want that type of surname. Somethin...