Sámuel
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/ˈʃaːmuɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Sámuel is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Slovakia it is the 38th most common given name.
- 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 Sámuel 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
Spellings & scripts
(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sámuel 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Samuel Abab. 990HUKing of Hungary (born: c. 990 death: 1044)
- Sámuel Mikovinyb. 1700HUSlovak cartographer, engineer-surveyor, mathematician, astronomer and polymath
- Samuel Genersichb. 1768SKHungarian botanist (1768-1844)
- Samuel Benjamin Soferb. 1815SKHungarian rabbi (1815–1871)
- Sámuel Telekib. 1845HUHungarian explorer (1845–1916)
- Samu Hazaib. 1851HUnot in their usual nameHungarian politician (1851-1942)
- Samuel Kraussb. 1866HUJudaic scholar (1866–1948)
- Samuel Kleinb. 1886HU20th-century historical-geographer (1886–1940)
- Samuel Miklos Sternb. 1920HUHungarian linguist, Islamicist (1920–1969)
- Shmuel Wolfb. 1934HUnot in their usual nameIsraeli actor (1934-2019)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 10 | #5,663 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #37,537 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Sámuel?
- In the etymology graph, Ismail, Ismael and Sammy are forms of the same name in other languages; Sami and Samu are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Sámuel?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈʃaːmuɛl/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /satmuel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sámuel a male or female name?
- Sámuel is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2024).
- In which country does Sámuel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 566 thousand people named Sámuel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samuel.
- Where is Sámuel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sámuel 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 Sámuel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 566,085 people named Sámuel in 2020, about 1 in 588 residents.
- How common is Sámuel compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Sámuel 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/s%C3%A1muelThe 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, “Sámuel” — the 38th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.