Meaning and history
Simone is the French feminine form of Simon, a Hebrew-derived name meaning "hearing" or "listening." It is feminine in French and English but masculine in Italian, giving the spelling different gender traditions across Europe. Famous bearers include French philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir, American gymnast Simone Biles and singer and civil-rights activist Nina Simone, who used it as her stage surname.
20062006: 528 births, rank #559
2007: 592 births, rank #526
2008: 562 births, rank #549
2009: 489 births, rank #619
2010: 431 births, rank #671
20112011: 444 births, rank #644
2012: 436 births, rank #655
2013: 427 births, rank #670
2014: 390 births, rank #719
2015: 340 births, rank #825
20162016: 382 births, rank #746
2017: 376 births, rank #746
2018: 386 births, rank #731
2019: 406 births, rank #707
2020: 314 births, rank #859
20212021: 312 births, rank #874
2022: 280 births, rank #959
2023: 287 births, rank #923
2024: 243 births, rank #1,036
20252025: 254 births, rank #995
Simone moved from #927 to #998 for girls between 2023 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1988, with 797 births.