Origin and popularity of the name SIMEON

Origin

Simeon : 1: French English Croatian and West Indian (mainly Haiti); Spanish (Simeón): from the French Middle English and Croatian personal name Simeon Spanish Simeón in origin the Biblical Hebrew name Shim‘on also rendered Simon. The name Simeon was chosen in honor of any of many Christian saints so named including Saint Simeon Stylites an ascetic 5th-century Syrian monk who lived for 40 years on top of a pillar. As a surname of Spanish origin it is most common in the Philippines.2: American shortened form of Greek patronymics from the personal name Simeon (see 1 above) such as Simeonidis or Simeonoglou.

Simien : French (southern): rare variant of Simian from a regional variant of the personal name Siméon (see Simeon) or perhaps from a short form of the personal name Massimian a regional variant of Maximien (see Massimino). In the US it is found mainly among African Americans mostly in TX and LA. Compare Semien.

Simon : English (Lancashire) French Walloon Breton German Dutch Hungarian northern Italian and Jewish (Ashkenazic); Spanish (Simón); Czech and Slovak (mainly Šimon); Slovenian Croatian and Rusyn (from Slovakia) (also Šimon): from the Biblical personal name Hebrew Shim‘on which is probably derived from the Hebrew verb sham‘a ‘to hearken’. In the Vulgate and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament this is usually rendered Simeon. In the Greek New Testament however the name occurs as Simōn as a result of assimilation to the pre-existing Greek byname Sīmōn (from sīmos ‘snub-nosed’). Both Simon and Simeon were in use as personal names in western Europe from the Middle Ages onward. In Christendom the former was always more popular at least in part because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter the brother of Andrew. In Britain there was also confusion from an early date with Anglo-Scandinavian forms of Sigmund(r) or Sigmund (see Siegmund) a name whose popularity was reinforced at the Conquest by the Norman form Simund. In North America this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages e.g. Italian Simone Polish Szymon Albanian Simoni and Assyrian/Chaldean or Arabic Shimun Shamon or Shamoun and also their derivatives (see examples at Simons). See also Shimon.

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