Entry № 9723 · Hebrew origin

Simcha Simcha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIM-khah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Joy / celebration"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "joy / celebration".

Simcha is from the Hebrew śimḥā (שִׂמְחָה — joy, gladness, celebration). Simcha Holtzberg (1969-2008) — modern Hasidic Jewish figure. Simcha Goldstein — Hasidic Jewish figure. Princess Simcha — Jewish heritage naming.

Joy / celebration (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

שִׂמְחָה
Transliteration
Śimḥā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɪm.xə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Simcha stands.

Simcha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Simchas before her.

Real people
Simcha Jacobovici
Israeli-Canadian Emmy filmmaker.
born 1953
In fiction
Simcha
Hebrew joy.

Names connected to Simcha.

The number behind Simcha.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Simcha reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.