Samiel
Samiel was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,552 among boys’ names; 121 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samiel?
#9,552 among boys’ names, 2025
Samiel rose from #13,688 in 2015 to #9,552 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.7 per million.
11 babies in 2022, the peak
Samiel peaked in 2022, when 11 boys were given it, #7,663 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,552 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,853 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,812 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,663 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,710 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,760 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,098 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,688 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,890 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,120 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,811 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,790 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,749 | 3.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,255 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,108 | 4.0 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,694 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,678 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Samiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 109 Americans named Samiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 205 people named Samiel (21 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 64 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 833,324 babies since 1880, Samiel is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 8,420 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Samiel and names like it
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