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Simona

The feminine counterpart to Szymon, from a Hebrew name meaning "God has heard". Rare enough that most Poles have never met one, though after quieter years it's slowly climbing back.

Simona Pronunciation

Simona is pronounced shee-MO-nah (/ɕiˈmɔna/).

Related names
Symeon Szymon
Alive in 2025
1,223
Newborns 2025
8
National rank
#874

What Simona means

Where Simona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Simona reaches back to Hebrew, to the old name Shim'on, the same source that gave Poland its Szymon. The root means listening. Polish glosses it as "bóg wysłuchał," God has heard, the sense of a child received as an answer to prayer.

The masculine forms came first and are the better documented. Szymon and its older shape Symeon run through the Gospels, and from that line the feminine Simona was formed. She is not native to Polish in the way Szymon is. The name arrived later by way of Italian and other neighbors, where Simona has long been common.

On a name-day list at the urząd, Simona and Szymon can sit close together, two forms of one Hebrew word. Whatever else the name suggests, it keeps its first meaning near the surface: to hear, to be heard.

How many people are named Simona

1 in 18463 women in Poland is named Simona. 1,223 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #874 among female names.

People with the name Simona 2019 → 2025
1,223 +182 since 2019
2020 1,056 +15
2021 1,084 +28
2022 1,107 +23
2023 1,148 +41
2024 1,182 +34
2025 1,223 +41

Simona's popularity over time

8 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #779 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2022.

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8 newborns with the name Simona in 2025
national rank #779 that year

Where parents choose Simona

Simona is most popular in Opole, 621% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+217%) and Pomeranian (+126%). It is least common in Masovian, 6% below average.

Chosen most
  • Opole
    +621%
    1 in 23,048 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    +217%
    1 in 52,378 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +126%
    1 in 73,661 babies
Chosen least
  • Masovian
    −6%
    1 in 177,133 babies

Simona as a middle name

Simona is a first name for 1,223 women in Poland and a middle name for another 256, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 422nd, between Fernanda (257) and Edeltrauda (255).

As a first name
1,223
As a middle name
256
first name 83% middle name 17%
Middle-name ranking women

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