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Shimon - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Shimon
 
 

 



[ 2 syll. (s)hi-mon, sh-im-on ] The boy name Shimon is pronounced SHIYMowN or SHIYMahN KEY. Shimon is of Hebrew origin and it is also used largely in the Hebrew language. Shimon is a form of the English, French, and German Simon.

Shimon is unusual as a baby boy name. It is not ranked within the top 1000. In 2007, among the family of boy names directly linked to Shimon, the English, French, and German Simon was the most widely used.

Baby names that sound like Shimon include the Arabic, Iranian, and Turkish Salman, the Arabic, Hungarian, Iranian, and Turkish Sami, the English Sammy, the Hungarian Samu, the Arabic and French Samy, the Russian Sanya, the Scottish Sawney, the Scottish Sawnie, the Russian Semyon, the Irish Senán, the English Shannon, the Dutch and German Siemen, the Scandinavian Simen, the English, French, and German Simon, the Italian Simone, the Arabic and Iranian Sina, the Irish Síomón, the English Sonnie, the English Sonny, the Polish Szymon, the Albanian Cemi, the English Sam, the Irish Sean, the Irish Seanán, the Dutch and German Sem, the English and Irish Shane, the English Shaun, the English Shawn, the English Shayne, the English Shem, the English Shone, the English Sim, the German and Slavic Simeon, the Scottish Sìm, the Scandinavian Stian, the Irish Stiana, the German and Scandinavian Swen, and the Arabic and Turkish Cem.

KEY: English pronunciation for Shimon: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


A famous person named Shimon is Politician Shimon Peres, born Shimon Persky, Vishneva, Poland.

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