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I like it very much.

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I've known a few Simons. Most of them were South American and spelled it Simón. I knew two from Argentina (they were father and son), two from Colombia, and one from Chile. I also met a Simon from France. All the Simons I knew were pretty nice.

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I know several guys named Simão, the Portuguese form of the name, including one of my cousins. I've only ever had problems with one of them (and thankfully it wasn't the one whom I'm related to).

It was in the top 100 here from the 1950s to the 1990s, so it's a really common name here, but dated, like most New Testament names that were in vogue in the UK at the time. I've liked all the Simons I've known & think it's a perfectly good name, but I'd find it an odd choice on a baby.

I like it! It makes me think of Alvin & the Chipmunks, but I loved that show so it's a good thing!

It's a classic and there's nothing wrong with it. I dislike the way it starts with a sigh.

I love it. It is one of my top names if we had another boy (we didn't). I always associated it with being quiet or a little quirky, perhaps a bit intellectual. I suppose I can also the oily associations that some people have? But mostly I perceive it a touch nerdy and leaning British.

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I might be an outlier, since a lot of people seem to be neutral or somewhat negative toward it. I was born in 1979, so perhaps to me it was always a familiar name, but I never knew too many people who had it.

I like it because I don't know too many people with this name. I associate it with Jewish people because the few people I know named Simon are Jewish

I wouldn't use it as it's so dated but it's not a bad name. I've known hundreds. Really popular name in the UK probably from the 50s to the 70s. There were several at my school and a few in my current office. It's just a very boring name like Mark, Paul, Michael etc to me, no particular type of person associated with it.

I have a lot of competing associations. None of them seem make it or break it, for me to really like or dislike it. I haven't known any Simons except celebrities and characters, so it's easy to imagine the name as having a character... and harder to imagine a real person. On a real person it might seem about like Francis or Silas - urban, conventional but deliberately un-generic, masculine but not a strong/virile impression.

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If Simon is a character, I think he'd seem: Slightly nerdy or misfit, but not due to being incompetent or unpleasant or too brainy - more because of being sort of inscrutable and quirky. Independent, maybe visionary, articulate but quiet, unsentimental, wiry.
A raccoon comes to mind. ??!

Very British, to me, but not so British that it would be out of place on an American. I like it fine.

I love Simon. I can only think of one I've known, who I went to school with, but this is one of those names that I don't associate with a particular age group at all. Simon could be a baby, or 50, or 80, and I wouldn't be surprised. This is nice because most names like that are names that have been consistently very popular, but Simon hasn't been.

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I just really like the sound of it. It's handsome without being over the top masculine.

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Oh, and it's the name of my brother's fiancée's cat. It's quite funny on a cat. Makes him seem strangely dignified.

I don't mind it, but it's my DH's first name and he hates it. So much so that he goes by his middle name now.

I like it - it's not popular here at all, so I don't think I've ever met one in real life. Makes me think of someone intelligent and a little reserved (maybe it's that Alvin and the Chipmunks association lol)

It kind of comes across as a truncated version of Solomon to me, even though I know they're not related. Solomon is consistently one of my fav 3 masculine names...alhough, unlike Solomon, I associate it with French: partly because it reminds me of Simone, which I feel like I see more often (in books and music), and partly because of the two Simons I've met, one was from France and the other was from Quebec.

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Also, I guess Simon & Garfunkel is an association for me. I get more of a folksy and intellectual vibe from Simon than I do from most other biblical names.

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I think it's kind of cute for a cat or a dog, but on a person it makes me think of somebody who's sly and sneaky and just generally kind of oily and untrustworthy. Shifty eyes, rat-faced, fake toothy smirk.

Hello, my name is Simon, and I like to do DRAAAWRRRINGS!

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That's what I think of. Annoyingly precocious British boy, although apparently it's no longer popular in the UK. Also, it's always sounded slithery to me. I don't like it.

I love it. It feels dated to me, but I don't care. It's one of my favorites.

I don't mind it.
Associations: Alvin and the Chipmunks and the movie Mercury Rising

I love it. I have loved it since the character on 7th Heaven; I was a huge fan and okay, had a total crush on David Gallagher, the actor.

It’s fine, but I don’t particularly like it. I went to school with a Simon, but even so I have always thought it of it as a dad name!

Meh. I think I would like it a lot more if it wasn't my cousin's name (although spelled with a Z). We don't have a good relationship and he has problems with drugs etc. So that's my association.
It's nothing wrong with the name though, just a matter of personal taste.

It's my favorite boys' name. :)