Zima

This surname was originally derived from the Hebrew personal name SHIMON, and in many vernacular versions of the Old Testament the name is usually rendered as SIMEON. In the New Testament, however, the name is normally rendered as Simon, partly as a result of an association with the Greek byname SIMOS, meaning snub-nosed. The name has spread to England, Italy, Germany, Holland, Czechosovakia and Hungary, and the name has been in use as a given name in Western Europe from the Middle Ages onwards.