Samuell
Samuell was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 201 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Samuell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Samuell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,704, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1999, the peak
Samuell peaked in 1999, when 11 boys were given it, #5,966 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,704 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,782 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,840 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #8,016 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,895 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,848 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,206 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,189 | 4.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,409 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,543 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #9,751 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,416 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,297 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,063 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,966 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,285 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,958 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,035 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,603 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,127 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,267 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,433 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,385 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,375 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,589 | 3.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,861 | 4.3 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,069 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,633 | 4.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,695 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Samuell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Samuell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Samuell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Samuell, and how old are they?
An estimated 179 Americans named Samuell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Samuell (3 women and girls, 222 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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).
How common is the spelling Samuell?
Samuell is a less common spelling of Samuel: SSA has recorded 201 Samuell and 823,085 Samuel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 833,324 babies since 1880, Samuell is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 8,420 babies recorded by SSA was a Samuell (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Samuell
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 Samuell and names like it
- Compare Samuell and SamuelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sSamuell peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Samuell since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Samuell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Samuell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.