Is Simone a male or female name?
Simone is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in France at 100% and male usage in Spain at 59%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 98%
- Sample size
- 276,090
- Confidence
- high
Simone by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | female | 100% | 220,220 | insee |
| United States US | female | 98% | 27,779 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | female | 76% | 13,068 | bfs |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 5,353 | statat |
| Canada CA | female | 99% | 3,827 | statcan |
| Spain ES | male | 59% | 2,071 | ine |
| England and Wales GB | female | 97% | 1,989 | ons |
| Poland PL | male | 65% | 671 | pesel |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 618 | cso |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 494 | ssb |
Attested in 90 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Simone over time
In the United States, 93.3% of the babies named Simone in the 1910s were girls, against 99.2% in the 2020s. In France, 100% of the babies named Simone in the 1900s were girls, against 98.7% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | — | 100% | 14,875 | |
| 1910s | 93% | 268 | 100% | 33,560 |
| 1920s | 93% | 431 | 100% | 70,770 |
| 1930s | 95% | 403 | 100% | 55,350 |
| 1940s | 98% | 545 | 100% | 29,535 |
| 1950s | 100% | 582 | 100% | 11,760 |
| 1960s | 99% | 2,565 | 100% | 2,705 |
| 1970s | 95% | 2,240 | 100% | 630 |
| 1980s | 98% | 3,971 | 100% | 220 |
| 1990s | 98% | 5,919 | — | |
| 2000s | 99% | 5,353 | — | |
| 2010s | 99% | 4,056 | 96% | 255 |
| 2020s | 99% | 1,436 | 99% | 380 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Simone with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Simone&country=FR" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Simone
Is Simone a male or female name?
Simone is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in France at 100% and male usage in Spain at 59%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Simone change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Simone identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.