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Samael

#3,365 in 2025Boys' name

Venom of God

Samael has been given to 523 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #3,365 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Samael, 2025

1 in 94,700

Samael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samael: meaning, origin, and history

Venom of God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Samael means

Samael means “venom of God”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 523 boys were recorded with the name Samael between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 62 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,316 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,402 in 2020 to #3,365 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,427 in 2015 to #3,365 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Samael?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,365
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samael was born before 2020 — so the typical Samael is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
523
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 53.5% of all recorded uses (280).

Is Samael rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−461
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,062
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 2022 (62)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,316
2022

Spellings of Samael

Samael is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 77.2% against Samael's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Samael is used

Across 1910–2025, Samael was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 249,668 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Samael has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Samael around the world

Where Samael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2023
    #3,524
    in 2023
  • France
    1997–2025
    #451
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #977
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Samael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,365
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 37
Best rank ever
#2,316
2022
Peak year
2022
62 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
523
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Samael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Samael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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