Semyon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Transliteration of the Russian given name Семён, equivalent to Simon or Simeon
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛmɒn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Semyon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 7.4K
- RURussia≈1 in 1.5Kas Семен
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Semyon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 named Семен, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Семен in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, IL Israel, Simen in NO Norway, Semion in MD Moldova and Семён in UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
Transliteration of the Russian given name Семён, equivalent to Simon or Simeon.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Semyon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #101 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | #57 | Семен | 178 |
| UA Ukraine | #136 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Семен | 50 |
| NO Norway | — | 8,652as Simen | 1 in 632 | 32K | Simen | 7 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Семён | 8 |
| MD Moldova | #317 | 3,007as Semion | 1 in 1.1K | 3K | Semion | 13 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Семен | 34 |
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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Semyon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Russian form of SIMON (actually from the form Simeon ). Pet form: Senya .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Semyon Shchedrinb. 1745RUpainter from Russia (1745-1804)
- Semyon Nadsonb. 1862RURussian poet (1862–1887)
- Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonnyb. 1883RUSoviet marshal (1883-1973)
- Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenkob. 1895UASoviet military commander (1895-1970)
- Semyon Lavochkinb. 1900RUJewish Soviet aerospace engineer (1900-1960)
- Semyon Kurkotkinb. 1917RUMarshal of the Soviet Union (1917–1990)
- Semion Mogilevichb. 1946UAnot in their usual nameRussian fraudster
- Semyon Bychkovb. 1952USSoviet and American conductor
- Semyon Slepakovb. 1979RURussian comedian
- Semyon Treskunovb. 1999RURussian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2 | #7,059 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Semyon mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of the Russian given name Семён, equivalent to Simon or Simeon. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Semyon?
- In the etymology graph, Simon, Simeon and Simo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Semyon?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛmɒn/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Semyon a male or female name?
- Semyon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Semyon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Семен in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Semyon?
- In Norway, the national register counted 8,652 people named Simen in 2025, about 1 in 632 residents.
- How common is Semyon compared with other names?
- In Russia, Semyon is the 101st most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Semyon?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/semyonThe 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, “Semyon” — the 101st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.