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Sammuel

#4,512 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Sammuel has been given to 2,703 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #4,512 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Sammuel, 2025

1 in 144,000

Sammuel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sammuel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sammuel means

Sammuel is a given name.

The naming story behind Sammuel

Wikidata records Sammuel as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q29068776, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,703 boys were recorded with the name Sammuel between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,265 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,898 in 2020 to #4,512 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,054 in 2015 to #4,512 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 Sammuel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,512
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sammuel 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sammuel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sammuels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sammuel was born before 1989 — so the typical Sammuel is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,312
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (479).

Is Sammuel 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
−922
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−614
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−458
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.7%
Peak was 2009 (61)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,265
1954

Spellings of Sammuel

Sammuel is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 95.7% against Sammuel's 0.32%.

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 Sammuel is used

Across 1910–2025, Sammuel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 142,816 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Mississippi1 in —
  7. 7New York1 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. Sammuel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sammuel around the world

Where Sammuel 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
    1997–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • France
    1972–2019
    #5,618
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2002–2008
    #2,611
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1964–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Sammuel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sammuel. Linked forms have their own page here.

Samuel

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sammuel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,512
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 614
Best rank ever
#1,265
1954
Peak year
2009
61 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,703
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Sammuel

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

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Names with a curve like Sammuel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sammuel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Sammuel

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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