Last Name SIMMONS

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Meaning The son of Simon, or Simond with excrescent 'd.' 'Cym,' propyr name, Simon. 'Gownd,' provincial for gownm 'ribband' and 'ribbon.' One of the popular font-names of the surname period.
A corruption of Simeon or Simon.
Origin English, Jewish, Spanish, Dutch, Native American, Irish, Falkland, Belgian, South african

Rank 103 (2000 US census) 92 (1990 US census)
Count 201,650 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 60.55%, or 122099 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 35.26%, or 71102 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.35%, or 706 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.61%, or 1230 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.74%, or 3509 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.5%, or 3025 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

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