Shemuel
#8,803 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shemuel has been given to 137 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #8,803 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Shemuel, 2025
1 in 368,000
Shemuel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shemuel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,803
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shemuel 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shemuel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shemuels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shemuel was born before 2015 — so the typical Shemuel is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 137
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Shemuel 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
- +5,120
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −186
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 81.8%
- Peak was 2014 (11)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shemuel
Shemuel is not the most common spelling — Samuel is, with 97.5% against Shemuel's 0.02%.
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.
Shemuel around the world
Where Shemuel 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.
- Canada2020–2020#2,570in 2020
- South Australia1979–2002#606in 2002
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shemuel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shemuel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shemuel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.