Semón
surname · Latin script
Semón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 97th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From sem- as in semantic and semiotics, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”), + -on.
- USUnited States1 in 203K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 65K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 67K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
1,638 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Semon in US United States, IT Italy, IE Ireland and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From sem- as in semantic and semiotics, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”), + -on.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Semón counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,638 | 1 in 203K | 1.6K | Semon | 232 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 187 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Semon | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 297K | 26 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 321K | 1 | Semon | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Semon | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 54 | 1 in 156K | 54 | Semon | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 10 | — | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #97 | — | — | — | Semon | 1 |
1,638 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Semón mean, and where does it come from?
- From sem- as in semantic and semiotics, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”), + -on. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Semón have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Semón, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled semon.
- How common is the name Semón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,638 people named Semón in 2010, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
- How common is Semón compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Semón is the 97th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sem%C3%B3nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Semón” — the 97th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.