Meaning not yet researched.
Sammuel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,266 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,266 in 1954; #4,513 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sammuel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,513 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #1,266.
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Sammuel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,266 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 61 (2009).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Sammuel, making it the 4,513th most common boys’ name of the year, down 921 places from #3,592 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 32 boys named Sammuel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,266, reached in 1954. The most boys given the name in a single year was 61, in 2009. For comparison, it was #4,056 in 2015 and #1,425 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sammuel in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 7 babies. In all, 2,703 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 479 babies named Sammuel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 257 US boys were named Sammuel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Samuel (823,085 babies since 1880) and Samual (5,594 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sammuel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,513 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,592 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #5,035 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,167 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,343 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,901 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,979 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,592 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,718 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,075 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,056 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,109 |
| 2013 | — | — | 41 | #2,837 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,707 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,472 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,864 |
| 2009 | — | — | 61 | #2,198 |
| 2008 | — | — | 56 | #2,341 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,330 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,505 |
| 2005 | — | — | 54 | #2,231 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,683 |
| 2003 | — | — | 56 | #2,052 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #3,005 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,783 |
| 2000 | — | — | 42 | #2,321 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,169 |
| 1998 | — | — | 52 | #1,895 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,601 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,583 |
| 1995 | — | — | 29 | #2,613 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,171 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,336 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,207 |
| 1991 | — | — | 31 | #2,341 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,937 |
| 1989 | — | — | 45 | #1,730 |
| 1988 | — | — | 37 | #1,842 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,388 |
| 1986 | — | — | 31 | #1,955 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,061 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #2,024 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,484 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,259 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,479 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,434 |
| 1979 | — | — | 19 | #2,544 |
| 1978 | — | — | 16 | #2,774 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #3,017 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,101 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,737 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,285 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,972 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,230 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,113 |
| 1970 | — | — | 29 | #1,607 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,117 |
| 1968 | — | — | 27 | #1,540 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,890 |
| 1966 | — | — | 21 | #1,719 |
| 1965 | — | — | 22 | #1,714 |
| 1964 | — | — | 25 | #1,607 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,738 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,584 |
| 1961 | — | — | 28 | #1,547 |
| 1960 | — | — | 23 | #1,724 |
| 1959 | — | — | 27 | #1,554 |
| 1958 | — | — | 29 | #1,475 |
| 1957 | — | — | 34 | #1,361 |
| 1956 | — | — | 35 | #1,314 |
| 1955 | — | — | 34 | #1,308 |
| 1954 | — | — | 36 | #1,266 |
| 1953 | — | — | 34 | #1,302 |
| 1952 | — | — | 34 | #1,296 |
| 1951 | — | — | 28 | #1,426 |
| 1950 | — | — | 27 | #1,425 |
| 1949 | — | — | 30 | #1,343 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,555 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,978 |
| 1946 | — | — | 22 | #1,550 |
| 1945 | — | — | 26 | #1,323 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,970 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,982 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,528 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,188 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,165 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,267 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,832 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,454 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,157 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,504 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,106 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,581 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #3,053 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,621 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,540 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,208 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,286 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,654 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,356 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,607 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,420 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,239 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,952 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,863 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,703 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,494 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).