Samuella
#7,835 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Samuella has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #7,835 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Samuella, 2025
1 in 237,000
Samuella 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Samuella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,835
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Samuella 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Samuella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Samuellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Samuella was born before 2007 — so the typical Samuella is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 27.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 179
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 27.0% of all recorded uses (74).
Is Samuella 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
- +2,302
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +6,982
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,846
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.56×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (14)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.5% average annual change
Spellings of Samuella
Samuella is not the most common spelling — Pamella is, with 31.0% against Samuella's 2.7%.
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.
Samuella around the world
Where Samuella 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 & Wales2004–2024#3,696in 2024
- France1975–2025#3,483in 2025
- Canada2004–2024#2,710in 2024
- South Australia1967–1967#650in 1967
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.
Samuella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Samuella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Samuella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.