Samúel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/saːmuɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samúel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 2nd most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 447(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 588
- ESSpain1 in 813
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)
- #269 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 614 (measured from records)
- 1 in 257 (inferred from the name graph)
566,085 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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, GH Ghana and 2 more, Samueel in BR Brazil and Sämüël in EC Ecuador.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Samúel 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 | #152 | 566,085 | 1 in 588 | 565K | Samuel | 614 |
| BR Brazil | — | 522,131 | 1 in 405 | 522K | Samueel | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 61,517 | 1 in 813 | 62K | Samuel | 165 |
| SE Sweden | #229 | 22,803 | 1 in 447 | 23K | Samuel | 124 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,326 | 1 in 757 | 22K | Sämüël | 43 |
| FI Finland | — | 21,683 | 1 in 257 | 27K | Samuel | 77 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 16,316 | 1 in 656 | 16K | — | 6 |
| GH Ghana | #2 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Samuel | 164 |
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)
- Samúel Jónssonb. 1884ISpainter (1884-1969)
- Samúel J. Samúelssonb. 1974ISIcelandic musician
- Samúel Kári Friðjónssonb. 1996ISIcelandic professional footballer
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #46,185 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Samúel?
- A machine transcription gives /saːmuɛl/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Samúel a male or female name?
- Samúel 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 Samúel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 566 thousand people named Samúel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled samuel.
- Where is Samúel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samúel 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 Samúel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 566,085 people named Samúel in 2020, about 1 in 588 residents.
- How common is Samúel compared with other names?
- In the United States, Samúel is the 152nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Samúel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sam%C3%BAelThe 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, “Samúel” — the 152nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.