Symeon
A rare name that's picking up again: more boys got it last year than in the years before, though the total alive stays near 130. It shares a Hebrew root with Szymon, from a word meaning "he has heard".
Symeon Pronunciation
Symeon is pronounced sih-ME-on (/sɨˈmɛɔn/).
What Symeon means
Where Symeon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Symeon comes from Hebrew, from a root meaning "he has heard." The older reading held that God had listened, which is what the Polish keeps: bóg wysłuchał. The name marks an answer that arrived.
In the Hebrew Bible, Simeon stands among the sons of Jacob. Greek writers rendered the name as Symeon, and that spelling carried into the Gospels. Polish later shaped its own form, Szymon, which is the version most people here actually meet.
There is a feminine variant too, Simona. The meaning stays the same. Read a name-day list at the urząd and you find Szymon marked for late autumn, the Hebrew sense of a heard prayer sitting under a plain Polish spelling.
When Symeon celebrates name day
Symeon appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 16 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Symeon
1 in 159300 men in Poland is named Symeon. 134 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2866 among male names.
Symeon's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1363 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Symeon is most popular
Symeon is most popular in Silesian, 850% above the national average (4 boys born 2019–2025).
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Silesian4 boys born+850%
Symeon as a middle name
Symeon is a first name for 134 men in Poland and a middle name for another 152, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 566th, between Onufry (152) and Colin (151).
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#564 Raphael153
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#565 Onufry152
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#566 Symeon152
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#567 Colin151
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#568 Gaweł151