Sammuel
Sammuel was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,512 among boys’ names; 2,703 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Sammuel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 18 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sammuel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sammuel?
#4,512 among boys’ names, 2025
Sammuel fell from #4,054 in 2015 to #4,512 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 13.5 per million.
61 babies in 2009, the peak
Sammuel peaked in 2009, when 61 boys were given it, #2,197 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,512 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,590 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,030 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,163 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,339 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,898 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,976 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,588 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,714 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,074 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,054 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,106 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,835 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,706 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,471 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,863 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,197 | 30.8 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,340 | 27.4 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,330 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,504 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,227 | 27.0 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,679 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,048 | 28.3 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,001 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 34 | #2,778 | 17.5 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,317 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,165 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,892 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 31 | #2,597 | 16.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,578 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,608 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,166 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,330 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,202 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,335 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,932 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,725 | 22.5 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,837 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,384 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,953 | 16.8 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,060 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,023 | 15.0 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,483 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,258 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,478 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,433 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,543 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,773 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,016 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,100 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,735 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,283 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,971 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,230 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,111 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,606 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,116 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,539 | 15.5 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,889 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 21 | #1,718 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 22 | #1,713 | 11.8 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,606 | 12.5 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,737 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 26 | #1,583 | 12.6 |
| 1961 | 28 | #1,546 | 13.2 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,723 | 10.8 |
| 1959 | 27 | #1,553 | 12.6 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,474 | 13.7 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,360 | 15.8 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,313 | 16.5 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,307 | 16.5 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,265 | 17.7 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,301 | 17.2 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,295 | 17.5 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,425 | 14.9 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,424 | 15.1 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,342 | 16.9 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,554 | 13.1 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,977 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,549 | 13.5 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,322 | 19.3 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,969 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 15 | #1,981 | 10.5 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,528 | 15.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,188 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,165 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,267 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,832 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,454 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,157 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,504 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,106 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,580 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,053 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,620 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,538 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,206 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,251 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,286 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,652 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,354 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,607 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,418 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,237 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,951 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,861 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,702 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,493 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sammuel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sammuel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sammuel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sammuel, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 2,703 Americans ever recorded as Sammuel. The median Sammuel alive today is 31 years old; half are between 18 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,574 people named Sammuel (7 women and girls, 1,567 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 51 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 353 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 267 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 467 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 714 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 346 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Sammuel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,250 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sammuel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sammuel?
Sammuel is a less common spelling of Samuel: SSA has recorded 2,703 Sammuel and 823,085 Samuel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 833,324 babies since 1880, Sammuel is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 8,420 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sammuel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sammuel and names like it
- Compare Sammuel and SamuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSammuel peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sammuel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Sammuel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sammuel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.