# Simões (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/simoes/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,203 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,737 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 140,148 people |
| Change since 2000 | +18% (1,866 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Simões in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Simões in Brazil.

## People named Simões

- Fabiana Simões, Brazilian association football player
- René Simões, Brazilian football manager
- Leonardo Renan Simões de Lacerda, Brazilian footballer
- Victor Simões, Brazilian footballer
- José Edvar Simões, Brazilian basketball player
- João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian journalist and writer (1865–1916)

## Similar surnames

Sims, Simms, Simas, Siems, Symes, Sines, Simko, Simek, Sones, Smoke, Singh, Saenz.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.