Simeon
A Hebrew name meaning "god has heard", the foreign cousin of Poland's common Szymon. Barely a hundred men carry it here, so meeting one would stay in your memory.
Simeon Pronunciation
Simeon is pronounced shee-ME-on (/ɕiˈmɛɔn/).
What Simeon means
Where Simeon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Simeon comes from Hebrew Shim'on, built on the verb shama, to hear. Its short meaning is "God has heard," bóg wysłuchał in Polish. The naming reads like an answer to something asked. In scripture it belongs to the second son of Jacob and Leah, and later to the old man who held the infant Jesus in the Temple.
Polish gave the name its own body. Simeon became Szymon, and Szymon shortened to Szymek. The apostle known as Peter first carried Simon before his renaming, which kept the sound familiar across Catholic Poland.
Szymon has a name-day, obchodzony 28 października. A boy born today might meet his name three ways: Simeon on a baptismal record, Szymon at the urząd, Szymek in the schoolyard. Each form points back to the same Hebrew root.
God has heard, and the child answers to that.
How many people are named Simeon
1 in 207245 men in Poland is named Simeon. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3384 among male names.
Simeon as a middle name
Simeon is a first name for 103 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2350th, between Shraga (16) and Swen (16).
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#2348 Shai16
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#2349 Shraga16
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#2350 Simeon16
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#2351 Swen16
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#2352 Tamer16