Samuel

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: German

Meaning

Samuel is a male name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "name of God", deriving from the Hebrew Shem + สพฤ’l.

From Wikipedia

Samuel first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 29 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1997 with 6,367 babies (rank #7 that year). In 2024 it was given to 857 boys (rank #60). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Samuel

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Samuel yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

108,505
Total babies (all years)
29
Years in the data
6,367
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19966,161#9
19976,367#7
19986,072#7
19996,123#7
20005,800#8
20015,259#7
20025,067#7
20034,970#8
20045,570#6
20055,219#7
20064,844#9
20074,825#11
20084,624#11
20094,314#12
20104,144#14
20113,803#15
20123,499#15
20133,188#20
20143,021#21
20152,705#23
20162,413#24
20172,083#29
20181,788#33
20191,540#41
20201,261#47
20211,123#56
2022987#60
2023878#62
2024857#60