Simone

French, feminine variation of Hebrew Simon
"hearkening"

Simone Origin and Meaning

The name Simone is a girl's name of French origin meaning "hearkening".

Simone, the elegant French feminization of Simon, strikes that all-important balance between unusual and familiar, and it's oozing with Gallic sophistication. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a daughter named Simone; Chris Rock used it in the middle place for his daughter, as did Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates

Two French philosophers are notable bearers of the name: feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir, author of the influential The Second Sex, and Simone Weil. The name might get a bit of a bounce via the two young Simones who shone in the 2016 Rio Olympics--Simone Bile, who set a US record high of four medals in a single Olympics, and Simone Manuel, who became the first African-American female swimmer to bring home a gold.

The actress who played the lead in the iconic French horror movie Cat People is Simone Simon.

# 927 in the US

Simone Rank in US Top 1000

# 444 on Nameberry

Simone Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Simone Popularity

Famous People Named Simone

  • Simone ThΓ©rΓ¨se Fernande Simon
    French actress
  • Simone Henriette Charlotte Signoret
    French actress
  • Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
    French feminist theorist
  • Simone Arianne Biles
    American gymnast
  • Simone Weil
    French philosopher and mystic
  • Simone Elkeles
    American novelist
  • Simone Giertz
    Internet personality, Robot enthusiast and inventor from Sweden based in San Francisco.
  • Simone (born Lisa Celeste Stroud)
    American singer/actress; daughter of singer Nina Simone
  • Simone Annie Liline Veil
    a famous French politician and lawyer; 12th President of the European Parliament
  • Simone Giertz
    Internet personality from Sweden based in
  • Simone Melchior Cousteau
    French wife of undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau; first woman scuba diver and aquanaut
  • Simone Johanna Maria Simons
    Dutch singer,songwriter of metal band Epica
  • Simone de Oliveira
    Portuguese singer and actress
  • Simone Fleurice Eden
    American model; daughter of model Carol Eden
  • Simone Egeriis
    Danish pop singer
  • Simone Denny
    Canadian pop singer
  • Simone "Simca" Beck
    French cookbook author and chef
  • Simone Manuel
    American swimmer
  • Simone Naomi Charley
    American soccer player
  • Simone Dinnerstein
    American pianist
  • Nina Simone
    American singer and activist
  • Simone LeMond (b. 1990)
    daughter of cyclist Greg LeMond
  • Simone Rivera Cruickshank (b. 1994)
    daughter of TV host Geraldo Rivera
  • Simone Burnett (b. 1997)
    daughter of singer Sam Phillips and producer T,Bone Burnett
  • Simone Alexandra Johnson (b. 2001)
    daughter of actor/wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
  • Simone Reid (b. 2003)
    daughter of singer Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Lola Simone Rock (b. 2002)
    daughter of comedian Chris Rock
  • Luna Simone Stephens (b.2016)
    daughter of model Chrissy Teigen and singer John Legend
  • Arabella Simone Eigenmann (b.2017)
    daughter of Geoff Eigenmann

Simone in Pop Culture

  • Simone Cassidy
    protagonist of the Treasure Huntress book series
  • Simone Davis
    main character from the TV show Star
  • Simone Sinclair
    character on TV's "
  • Simone Daniels
    character in film "Prom"
  • Simone
    character in "Does My Head Look Big in This?" by Randa Abdel,Fattah
  • Simone Deveaux
    character on TV's "Heroes"
  • Simone
    character on TV's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
  • Simone
    dog on TV's "The Partridge Family"
  • Simone
    character in 2002 film "S1m0ne"
  • Simone Lenoir
    character in animated film "Scooby,Doo on Zombie Island"
  • Simone Adamley
    character in film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
  • Simone
    character on TV's "Weeds"
  • Simone (stylized as S1M0NE) is a 2002 American science
    fiction film written, produced and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Evan Rachel Wood, Rachel Roberts, Jay Mohr and Winona Ryder, Simone in this movie is short for "Simulation One"
  • Simone Jackson
    Disco singer from "Daisy Jones & The Six"