Šamuel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Šamuel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 566,085 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 73rd. In Slovakia it is the 38th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl). Šamuel is also written Самуел in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 257(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 405
- SESweden1 in 447
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šamuel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)
566,085 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šamuel in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Samuel in US United States, ES Spain, SE Sweden and 2 more and Самуел in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinSamūēl(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΣαμουήλSamouḗl(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewשְׁמוּאֵלšəmûʾēl(measured from records)
From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl).
Cited for this meaning 14
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šamuel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 566,085 | 1 in 588 | 565K | Samuel | 185 |
| BR Brazil | — | 522,131 | 1 in 405 | 522K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 61,517 | 1 in 813 | 62K | Samuel | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22,803 | 1 in 447 | 23K | Samuel | 14 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,326 | 1 in 757 | 22K | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 21,683 | 1 in 257 | 27K | Самуел | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | #209 | 16,316 | 1 in 656 | 16K | Samuel | 119 |
| SK Slovakia | #38 | — | — | — | Samuel | 130 |
566,085 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šamuel mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 12 other sources.
- Is Šamuel a male or female name?
- Šamuel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Šamuel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 566 thousand people named Šamuel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samuel. After it come Brazil, Spain, Sweden and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šamuel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šamuel is densest in Finland — about 1 in 257 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šamuel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 566,085 people named Šamuel in 2020, about 1 in 588 residents.
- How common is Šamuel compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Šamuel is the 38th most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1amuelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šamuel” — ranked 73rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.