Sâmuel

given name · Latin script

Sâmuel is a 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. Recorded meaning: From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 588(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 656
  • FIFinland1 in 257

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

566,085 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
185 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SâmuelLatin(measured from records)
СамуелCyrillic(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)

Derivation of Sâmuel: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sâmuel
  1. LatinSamūēl(measured from records)
  2. Ancient GreekΣαμουήλSamouḗl(measured from records)
  3. Biblical Hebrewשְׁמוּאֵלšəmûʾēl(measured from records)

From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl).

Sources 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 33 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sâmuel 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.

Where Sâmuel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—566,0851 in 588565KSamuel185
BR Brazil—522,1311 in 405522K—1
ES Spain—61,5171 in 81362KSamuel22
SE Sweden—22,8031 in 44723KSamuel14
EC Ecuador—22,3261 in 75722K—3
FI Finland—21,6831 in 25727KСамуел8
CZ Czechia#20916,3161 in 65616KSamuel119
SK Slovakia#38———Samuel130

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sâmuel under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sâmuel 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 Sâmuel a male or female name?
Sâmuel 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.
In which country does Sâmuel have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 566 thousand people named Sâmuel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samuel.
Where is Sâmuel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sâmuel 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 Sâmuel?
In the United States, the national register counted 566,085 people named Sâmuel in 2020, about 1 in 588 residents.
How common is Sâmuel compared with other names?
In Slovakia, Sâmuel is the 38th most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.

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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, “Sâmuel” — the 38th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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