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Samuel
Pronounced /ˈsæmjuːəl/
Rank in 2024
#17
Born in 2024
8,310
Peak year
2001 · #26
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:7 in 2024 (#12,360)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 8,310 boys were named Samuel, about 1 in every 206.
- It peaked in 2001 with 14,813 babies, ranked #26.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 811,720 boys have been named Samuel since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Samuel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.6Greatest1901–27
- 3.0Silent1928–45
- 2.6Boomers1946–64
- 2.8Gen X1965–80
- 5.0Millennials1981–96
- 6.9Gen Z1997–12
- 5.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 77,389 babies, 4.63 per 1,000. Silent: 62,680 babies, 3.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 96,673 babies, 2.57 per 1,000. Gen X: 75,452 babies, 2.77 per 1,000. Millennials: 150,841 babies, 4.96 per 1,000. Gen Z: 215,625 babies, 6.87 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 115,197 babies, 5.30 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Latin Samuēl, from Ancient Greek Σαμουήλ (Samouḗl), from Biblical Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmûʾēl, literally “'God has set' or 'God has placed'”). Taken to mean a contraction of popular folk etymology שְׁאִלְתִּיו מֵאֵל (“I have asked/borrowed him from God”) (Modern: Šəʾīltīv mēʾĒl, Tiberian: Šĭʾīltīw mēʾĒl) by way of שָׁאוּל מֵאֵל (“asked/borrowed from God”) from 1 Samuel 1:20.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈsæmjuːəl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0.