Såmuel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Såmuel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Angola it is the 48th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Samūēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl).
- BRBrazil1 in 405(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 478
- USUnited States1 in 588
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #786 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 492 (measured from records)
- 1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)
566,085 people, 2020
of 15M given names
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, BR Brazil, SV El Salvador and 3 more.
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).
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 35 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Såmuel 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 | #897 | 566,085 | 1 in 588 | 565K | Samuel | 492 |
| BR Brazil | #132 | 522,131 | 1 in 405 | 522K | Samuel | 223 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Samuel | 98 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 672 | — | Samuel | 154 |
| FR France | — | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 936 | 96K | — | 7 |
| AO Angola | #48 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 880 | — | Samuel | 44 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22,803 | 1 in 447 | 23K | — | 53 |
| FI Finland | — | 21,683 | 1 in 257 | 27K | — | 32 |
| SV El Salvador | #101 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 478 | — | Samuel | 75 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); 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). 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 Såmuel 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 Såmuel a male or female name?
- Såmuel 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 Såmuel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 566 thousand people named Såmuel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samuel.
- Where is Såmuel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Såmuel 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 Såmuel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 566,085 people named Såmuel in 2020, about 1 in 588 residents.
- How common is Såmuel compared with other names?
- In the United States, Såmuel is the 897th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A5muelThe 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, “Såmuel” — the 897th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.