In 2025, 94 US boys were named Simcha, making it the 1,741st most common boys’ name of the year, up 314 places from #2,055 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 74 boys named Simcha in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,741, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #2,084 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Simcha, making it the 16,933rd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #8,259, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 12, in 2010. For comparison, it was #18,748 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Simcha in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 9 babies. In all, 2,236 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 650 babies named Simcha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 719 US boys were named Simcha; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 94. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Simcha ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #267 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.