Shmuel

Where Shmuel comes from

Borrowed from Yiddish שמואל (Shmuel), from Hebrew שְׁמוּאֵל (šəmūʾḗl).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shmuel
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1887
    Shmuel Yosef Agnon born
    Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
  2. 1923
    Shmuel Eisenstadt born
    Israeli sociologist
  3. 1953
    First appearance
    #3,143 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2022
    Peak, #913
    253 babies named Shmuel — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Samuel.
Namesakes
  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon · Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature, 1887–1970
  • Shmuel Eisenstadt · Israeli sociologist, 1923–2010
  • Shmuel Gonen · Israeli general, 1930–1991
  • Shmuel Wosner · Austrian Haredi Rabbi, 1913–2015
  • Shmuel Halpert · Israeli politician, born 1939

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.