Samual
#7,106 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samual has been given to 5,594 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #7,106 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 127 recorded.
Babies named Samual, 2025
1 in 276,000
Samual 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Samual?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,106
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samual 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samual. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samuals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samual was born before 1984 — so the typical Samual is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 17.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,320
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (974).
Is Samual 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
- −695
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,703
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,968
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.4%
- Peak was 1997 (127)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Samual
Samual is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 88.3% against Samual's 0.60%.
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 Samual is used
Across 1910–2025, Samual was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 119,574 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 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. Samual has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Samual around the world
Where Samual 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 & Wales1996–2023#4,992in 2023
- Ireland2008–2008#698in 2008
- Canada1991–2019#2,583in 2019
- South Australia1951–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Samual by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samual
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Samual
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Samual, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Samual
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.