Samuel
Top 1000
On Nameberry
About Samuel
Variation of Sam
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #23 | 11,024 | 5,739.1 |
| 2015 | #23 | 10,900 | 5,686.7 |
| 2016 | #21 | 10,615 | 5,593.5 |
| 2017 | #21 | 10,447 | 5,644.1 |
| 2018 | #21 | 9,850 | 5,423.5 |
| 2019 | #22 | 9,321 | 5,195 |
| 2020 | #25 | 8,585 | 4,973.7 |
| 2021 | #23 | 8,573 | 4,900.3 |
| 2022 | #19 | 8,414 | 4,819 |
| 2023 | #19 | 8,019 | 4,687.9 |
| 2024 | #17 | 8,310 | 4,823.3 |
| 2025 | #18 | 8,334 | 4,879.2 |
World rankings
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Famous Samuels
- Samuel
father of Abiah, of the tribe of Levi (1 Chr. 6:28)
- Samuel Gorton
American settler and civic leader in Rhode Island
- Samuel Johnson
English poet and author
- Samuel Adams
American revolutionary leader
- Samuel "Sam" Houston
American politician, 7th governor of Texas
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
birth name of Mark Twain, American novelist
- Samuel Colt
American firearm inventor
- Samuel Chandler Crafts
U.S. Senator and 12th Governor of Vermont
- Samuel Louis "Sam" Warner
Polish,American film producer of Warner Bros.
- Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
American founder of Wal,Mart Stores
- Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr.
American singer, actor, dancer
- Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson Jr.
American news anchor
- Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliott
American actor
- Samuel Leroy Jackson
American actor
- Samuel Alexander Joseph "Sam" West
English actor
- Samuel Pepys
English diarist and politician
- Samuel Hearne
English explorer
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting
American physicist and Nobel prize winner
- Samuel Barclay Beckett
Irish novelist and playwright
- Samuel John Everett "Sam" Loxton
Australian cricketer
- Samuel Eto'o (Fils)
Cameroonian footballer
- Samuel Jackson "Sam" Snead
American golfer
- Samuel Barnett
English actor
- Samuel "Sam" Shepard (Rogers)
American playwright and actor
- Samuel Henry John "Sam" Worthington
Australian actor
- Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston
American actor
- Samuel Michael "Sam" Simon
American TV producer and director
- Samuel "Sam" Rockwell
American actor
- Samuel "Sam" Cooke
American singer,songwriter
- Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback
American politician, governor of Kansas
- Samuel M "Sam" Raimi
American film director and writer
- David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah
American film director
- Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes
English stage and film director
- Samuel Cohen
birth name of Sammy Cahn, American songwriter
- Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar
leader singer of American band Van Halen
- Samuel Kelvin "Sammy" Peralta Sosa
Dominican baseball player
- Samuel E. Feinberg
birth name of Sammy Fain, American composer
- Samuel Anthony "Sam" Mikulak
American artistic gymnast
- Samuel Adrian "Sammy" Baugh
American football player
- Samuel Paul "Sammy" Kershaw
American country music singer
- Samuel Zarnocay
Jr., birth name of Sammy Kaye, American bandleader
- Samuel Baxter "Sammy" McIlroy
Northern Irish footballer
- Samuel Lee "Sammy" Green
American football player
- Samuel de Luque aka Vegetta777
Spanish YouTuber
- Samuel Kim Arredondo
Korean,American pop singer based in South Korea; former member of the duo 1Punch
- Samuel Umtiti
French professional footballer
- Samuel Ludwik Twardowski
Polish poet
- Samuel Seabury
American bishop and author
- Samuel "Sam" Irons (b. 1978)
English actor and photographer; son of actors Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack
- Samuel Patrick
son of American actor Robert Patrick
- Samuel Wyatt Cohn (b. 2006)
son of American television journalist Elizabeth Vargas
- Samuel Jason "Sammy" Black (b. 2006)
son of actor/musician Jack Black
- Samuel Kai Schreiber (b. 2008)
son of actors Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts
- Samuel Garner Affleck (b. 2012)
son of actors Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck
- Samuel Hawke Turner (b. 2014)
son of country music singer Josh Turner
- Samuel Joseph (b. 2016)
son of Savannah Mooney of TV's "16 and Pregnant"
- Samuel Thomas Lowe (b.2016)
son of reality TV personalities Sean and Catherine Lowe
- Samuel Scott Dillard (b.2017)
son of reality TV stars Jill (Duggar) and Derick Dillard
- Samuel George "Sam" Claflin
English actor
Samuel in pop culture
- Samuel Llewellyn Cornick
character in Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega by Patricia Briggs
- Samuel "Sam" Drake
character from the Uncharted game series
- Samuel "Sam" Temple
main character in Michael Grant's Gone series
- Samuel "Sam" Winchester
character on TV's Supernatural
- Samuel "Sam" Whiskey
main character in the Transformers franchise
- Samuel "Sam/Quinn" Quinn
character in the Blackwood Security series by Elise Noble
- Samuel Oak
Kanto professor in video game "Pokémon".
- Samuel "Sam" Healy
character on TV series "Orange is the New Black"
- Samuel "Sam" Alexander
aka Nova, character from Marvel Universe
- Samuel Thomas "Sam" Wilson
aka Falcon, character from Marvel Universe
- Samuel Zachary "Sam" Guthrie
aka Cannonball, character from Marvel Universe
- Samuel "Sammy" Lieberman
character on TV series "Dance Academy"
- Samuel Norbert Avery
deceased son of April Kepner and Jackson Avery on "Grey's Anatomy"
- Samuel J. Sullivan
aka "Nugget", the main character from "The 5th Wave" book series by Rick Yancey
- Samuel Joseph "Sam" Scudder aka Mirror Master
character from DC Universe
- Samuel Ratchett aka Lenfranco Cassetti
character from Hercule Poirot series
- Samuel Adams
American beer brand named after the revolutionary
- Samual Vanderboom
character in Rusty Lake: Roots
- Samuel "Sam" Malone
main character in "Cheers"
- Samuel "Sam" Roth
character in Maggie Stiefvater's "Shiver" trilogy
Variations & nicknames
- SamuelitoSpanish
- SamuelisLithuanian
- SamoylaRussian
- ShemYiddish
- SawylWelsh
- ShmuelHebrew
- SomhairleIrish
- SamvelRussian
- SamuHungarian
- SamoCzech
- SamuilRussian
- ZamielGerman
- SamiHungarian
- SamkoCzech
- SamouelGreek
- ShemuelYiddish
- SchmuelYiddish
- SamuliFinnish
- SamaruJapanese
- SamukaHungarian
- SamueleItalian
More nicknames
- Sam
- Sammy
