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Agrippina wrote:

Aern Rakesh wrote:

Agrippina wrote:I'd spell it Simeon.

I think most people would, but it does appear to have been the spelling of the name in medieval Denmark, Sweden etc...

OK I didn't know it was Danish, it appears in the Bible here:

Luke 2:25-35
King James Version (KJV)
25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

So I would see it as a "Christian" name.