In 2025, 12 US boys were named Samual, making it the 7,110th most common boys’ name of the year, down 694 places from #6,416 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Samual in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #640, reached in 1882. The most boys given the name in a single year was 127, in 1997. For comparison, it was #3,139 in 2015 and #971 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samual in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 5,594 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 974 babies named Samual.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 241 US boys were named Samual; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Samuel (823,085 babies since 1880) and Sammuel (2,703 babies since 1880).