I was wonderign if anyone knew the meaning of the surnames SYMONS SIMMONS SIMMONDS and any other variant, are all differnet or the same and just the spelling alters Sharon

All of your spellings mean 'Simon'. I found almost 200 different spellings of the name in its different forms (i.e., diminutives, patronyms, cognates, etc.) in several different languages! They all come from the Hebrew person name 'Shim'on'. There seems to be some confusion in England, though, with the Anglo-Scandinavian forms of 'Sigmun' in the Norman form 'Simund'. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara Sharon wrote: > I was wonderign if anyone knew the meaning of the surnames > SYMONS > SIMMONS > SIMMONDS > and any other variant, are all differnet or the same and just the spelling > alters > > Sharon > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp