Simcha
Simcha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 74 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 740.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201986 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1956
- 2,137people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,915 boys have been named Simcha in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 86 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 32%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 222 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Simcha was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Simcha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shmuelpeak 2022
- Mordechaipeak 2018
- Shlomopeak 2024
- Yisroelpeak 2019
- Aryehpeak 2024
- Mikaelpeak 2023
- Moshepeak 2023
- Yitzchokpeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.