Male name
When is Simeon’s name day?
Συμεών · Symeon
Main name day
Saint Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess
The Greek name Συμεών (Symeon) is celebrated on 3 February.
Also celebrated
The saints behind the name day
- Saint Simeon the God-Receiver1st centuryThe elder who, according to the Gospel of Luke, received the infant Jesus in the Temple.Simeon lived in Jerusalem and was righteous and devout; it had been revealed to him that he would not die before seeing the Christ. Forty days after the birth of Jesus, led by the Spirit, he went to the Temple.Read more
- Saint Symeon the New Theologian949–1022Byzantine monk and mystical writer from Paphlagonia, abbot of the Monastery of St Mamas in Constantinople, known for his Hymns of Divine Love and his teaching on the vision of the divine light.Symeon was born in 949 in Paphlagonia, into a wealthy family of the Byzantine nobility, and grew up in Constantinople under the protection of an uncle who served at the imperial court. There he met the monk Symeon the Studite of the Stoudios monastery, who became his spiritual father.Read more
Variants and other forms
- Other Greek forms and diminutives
- Σίμος
- In Latin letters
- Symeon, Simeon
- English equivalents
- Simeon
- In Greek
- Συμεών