Simon
74
Babies in 2024
-51%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 656
-20%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Simon
Simon peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (656 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 74 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Simon reached its peak in 1996, when 656 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #87 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 74 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,607 boys have been officially registered with the name Simon in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,208 boys were registered with the name, starting from 150 in 2014 and ending at 74 in 2024.