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.