Sammuel
#4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Peak · boys
- 1954 · 36 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,703since 1917
Sammuel over time
Rank among boys' names. Sammuel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,811 | 27 |
| 2019 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #3,990 | 26 |
| 2015 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #2,678 | 45 |
| 2011 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #2,183 | 61 |
| 2008 | #2,327 | 56 |
| 2007 | #2,304 | 56 |
| 2006 | #2,477 | 49 |
| 2005 | #2,206 | 54 |
| 2004 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #2,031 | 56 |
| 2002 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,742 | 34 |
| 2000 | #2,298 | 42 |
| 1999 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #1,871 | 52 |
| 1997 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #2,535 | 30 |
| 1995 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #2,174 | 35 |
| 1991 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #1,815 | 37 |
| 1987 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #1,917 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,019 | 28 |
| 1984 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #2,207 | 23 |
| 1981 | #2,418 | 20 |
| 1980 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #2,465 | 19 |
| 1978 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #1,928 | 22 |
| 1972 | #2,158 | 18 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #1,582 | 29 |
| 1969 | #2,046 | 17 |
| 1968 | #1,506 | 27 |
| 1967 | #1,853 | 18 |
| 1966 | #1,684 | 21 |
| 1965 | #1,669 | 22 |
| 1964 | #1,581 | 25 |
| 1963 | #1,695 | 22 |
| 1962 | #1,546 | 26 |
| 1961 | #1,521 | 28 |
| 1960 | #1,692 | 23 |
| 1959 | #1,522 | 27 |
| 1958 | #1,446 | 29 |
| 1957 | #1,345 | 34 |
| 1956 | #1,298 | 35 |
| 1955 | #1,294 | 34 |
| 1954 | #1,242 | 36 |
| 1953 | #1,280 | 34 |
| 1952 | #1,268 | 34 |
| 1951 | #1,407 | 28 |
| 1950 | #1,395 | 27 |
| 1949 | #1,322 | 30 |
| 1948 | #1,519 | 23 |
| 1947 | #1,916 | 16 |
| 1946 | #1,509 | 22 |
| 1945 | #1,296 | 26 |
| 1944 | #1,890 | 14 |
| 1943 | #1,910 | 15 |
| 1942 | #1,496 | 22 |
| 1941 | #2,083 | 12 |
| 1940 | #2,081 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,159 | 11 |
| 1938 | #2,646 | 8 |
| 1937 | #2,332 | 10 |
| 1936 | #2,062 | 12 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,022 | 13 |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #2,471 | 10 |
| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #2,162 | 14 |
| 1927 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #3,155 | 8 |
| 1924 | #2,473 | 12 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #2,804 | 10 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sammuel! It came in at #3,217, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Sammuel
- 872 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #4,396)
- 585 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #4,396)
- 414 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1954 at #1,242 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,518 boys born in 2009 were named Sammuel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,242 in 1954, was only 1 in 56,632 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.7% of all boys named Sammuel (479) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #3,217 (1917) | #3,698 |
| 1920s | 92 | #2,162 (1928) | #3,049 |
| 1930s | 95 | #2,022 (1934) | #2,549 |
| 1940s | 192 | #1,296 (1945) | #1,702 |
| 1950s | 318 | #1,242 (1954) | #1,350 |
| 1960s | 229 | #1,506 (1968) | #1,679 |
| 1970s | 178 | #1,582 (1970) | #2,450 |
| 1980s | 276 | #1,705 (1989) | #2,117 |
| 1990s | 345 | #1,871 (1998) | #2,341 |
| 2000s | 479 | #2,031 (2003) | #2,415 |
| 2010s | 335 | #2,437 (2011) | #3,475 |
| 2020s | 152 | #3,524 (2024) | #4,159 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sammuel in 1954
Top boys' names in 1954
More about 1954
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2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 56,632 of them was named Sammuel, which outranked 71.5% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,227Roderic37
- #1,227Theodis37
- #1,227Wilber37
- #1,242Sammuel36
- #1,242Adan36
- #1,242Betty36
- #1,242Candelario36
- #1,268Arlyn35
- #1,268Armond35
- #1,268Audrey35
Tied with 25 names at #1,242; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
- ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
- ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
- ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
- ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.