Samil
#9,553 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samil has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #9,553 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Samil, 2025
1 in 414,000
Samil over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Samil?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,553
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samil sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samil was born before 2015 — so the typical Samil is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 143
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Samil 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
- −1,348
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,208
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −140
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 61.5%
- Peak was 2012 (13)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Samil
Samil is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 57.0% against Samil's <0.01%.
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.
Samil around the world
Where Samil 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.
- France2000–2006#4,474in 2006
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Samil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Samil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.