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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : from the personal name Simos, a pet form of the personal name Simon.
  • Greek : nickname from Greek simos ‘snub-nosed’.
  • Greek : from a reduced form of the personal name Gerasimos, a derivative of geras ‘old age’, or of the homonymous geras ‘honor’. This was borne by a 5th-century saint, venerated in the Eastern Church, who was chiefly famous for extracting a thorn from a lion’s paw. Compare Grasmick.

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