Meaning not yet researched.
Shmuel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 256 in 2025. Its best rank was #919 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #919 in 2022; #923 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shmuel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#923 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #919.
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Shmuel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 256 boys in 2025. Peak: #919 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 256 (2025).
In 2025, 256 US boys were named Shmuel, making it the 923rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 45 places from #968 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 234 boys named Shmuel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #919, reached in 2022. The most boys given the name in a single year was 256, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,016 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shmuel in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 7 babies. In all, 5,972 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,850 babies named Shmuel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,221 US boys were named Shmuel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 256. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,672 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shmuel ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #81 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Samuel (823,085 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).
No nicknames listed for Shmuel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 114 | #81 | #132 |
| New York | 90 | #220 | #236 |
| Maryland | 10 | #508 | #776 |
| California | 6 | #2,425 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 256 | #923 |
| 2024 | — | — | 234 | #968 |
| 2023 | — | — | 246 | #927 |
| 2022 | — | — | 253 | #919 |
| 2021 | — | — | 205 | #1,048 |
| 2020 | — | — | 200 | #1,029 |
| 2019 | — | — | 203 | #1,027 |
| 2018 | — | — | 198 | #1,032 |
| 2017 | — | — | 222 | #942 |
| 2016 | — | — | 204 | #1,005 |
| 2015 | — | — | 200 | #1,016 |
| 2014 | — | — | 165 | #1,150 |
| 2013 | — | — | 187 | #1,034 |
| 2012 | — | — | 147 | #1,215 |
| 2011 | — | — | 142 | #1,234 |
| 2010 | — | — | 182 | #1,058 |
| 2009 | — | — | 135 | #1,301 |
| 2008 | — | — | 141 | #1,239 |
| 2007 | — | — | 142 | #1,244 |
| 2006 | — | — | 128 | #1,299 |
| 2005 | — | — | 108 | #1,389 |
| 2004 | — | — | 108 | #1,355 |
| 2003 | — | — | 90 | #1,463 |
| 2002 | — | — | 93 | #1,412 |
| 2001 | — | — | 96 | #1,348 |
| 2000 | — | — | 84 | #1,476 |
| 1999 | — | — | 96 | #1,280 |
| 1998 | — | — | 86 | #1,369 |
| 1997 | — | — | 70 | #1,505 |
| 1996 | — | — | 65 | #1,550 |
| 1995 | — | — | 79 | #1,325 |
| 1994 | — | — | 62 | #1,529 |
| 1993 | — | — | 75 | #1,319 |
| 1992 | — | — | 71 | #1,348 |
| 1991 | — | — | 64 | #1,428 |
| 1990 | — | — | 55 | #1,545 |
| 1989 | — | — | 61 | #1,410 |
| 1988 | — | — | 63 | #1,305 |
| 1987 | — | — | 72 | #1,135 |
| 1986 | — | — | 48 | #1,454 |
| 1985 | — | — | 49 | #1,410 |
| 1984 | — | — | 55 | #1,248 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,294 |
| 1982 | — | — | 43 | #1,482 |
| 1981 | — | — | 44 | #1,453 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,800 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,624 |
| 1978 | — | — | 30 | #1,787 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #2,001 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,923 |
| 1975 | — | — | 31 | #1,655 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,786 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,995 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,147 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,267 |
| 1970 | — | — | 20 | #2,046 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #3,035 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #3,074 |
| 1967 | — | — | 16 | #2,019 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,955 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,753 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,976 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,284 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,585 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,321 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,665 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,427 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,319 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,760 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,389 |
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).