first name
SAMUEL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 566,085 people named Samuel, 62.5% reported their origin as White, 19.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 11.2% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Samuel peaked in 2001, when 14,845 babies got the name.
At least 823,085 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Samuel by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #28. The largest share of babies named Samuel, 26.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Samuel is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Samuel has been most common in Alaska (1.7×), South Carolina (1.5×), and Delaware (1.4×), and least common in North Dakota (0.6×).
794,767 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Samuel
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Samuel, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Samuel ranks #1,408 of 156,621, with 24,616 people. See Samuel as a last name
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