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Samuele

Boys' name

He who listens to God

Samuele has been given to 248 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Samuele, 2022

1 in 677,000

Samuele over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Samuele: meaning, origin, and history

He who listens to God

Hebrew

What Samuele means

Samuele means “he who listens to God”, associated with Šəmūʾḗl.

Origin, language, and formation

Samuele is used in Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Samuele comes through Latin Samū̆ēl and Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Samuel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Samuele is pronounced /sa.muˈɛ.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 248 boys were recorded with the name Samuele between 1985 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1999; its best national rank was #4,753 in 1989.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Samuele?

Samuele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Samuele 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samuele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Samueles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Samuele was born before 2003 — so the typical Samuele is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Samuele 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (14)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,753
1989

Spellings of Samuele

Samuele is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 98.2% against Samuele's 0.03%.

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.

Samuele around the world

Where Samuele 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #3,932
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1962–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Samuele by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,753
1989
Peak year
1999
14 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
248
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Samuele

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

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Sibling names for Samuele

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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