Samwèl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Samwèl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 342(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 606
- NANamibia≈1 in 20K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 342 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Samwel in KE Kenya, TZ Tanzania, EG Egypt and 2 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samwèl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #15 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 342 | 1 | Samwel | 58 |
| KE Kenya | #61 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 606 | 1 | Samwel | 63 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Samwel | 8 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Samwel | 32 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 27 | 1 in 1.4M | 27 | — | 1 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Samwel | 5 |
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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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
- Is Samwèl a male or female name?
- Samwèl 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 Samwèl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 thousand people named Samwèl in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samwel.
- How common is the name Samwèl?
- In Poland, the national register counted 27 people named Samwèl in 2026, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Samwèl compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Samwèl is the 15th most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samwèl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samw%C3%A8lThe 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, “Samwèl” — the 15th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.