Samuele
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Samuele is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Italy it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ebraico: 'Dio/il Signore ha ascoltato'.
- ITItaly1 in 516◐
- USUnited States1 in 589
- LALaos1 in 610
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3M ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 172 ●
- 1 in 257 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
32K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Samuel in US United States, LA Laos, IN India and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Ebraico: 'Dio/il Signore ha ascoltato'.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 565,090△ | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 589 | 565K | Samuel | 110 |
| BR Brazil | — | 522,131△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 405 | 522K | Samuele | 2 |
| IT Italy | #77 | 98,144 | 23K rec. | — | 2K | Samuele | 172 |
| FR France | — | 96,380△ | 608 rec. | 1 in 704 | 96K | Samuele | 116 |
| ES Spain | — | 61,517△ | 144 rec. | 1 in 813 | 62K | Samuele | 35 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22,803△ | 29 rec. | 1 in 447 | 23K | Samuele | 10 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,326△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 757 | 22K | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 21,683△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 257 | 27K | Samuele | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 16,316 | — | 1 in 656 | 16K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 7,432△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 5.2K | 7.4K | Samuele | 1 |
| LA Laos | #107 | 7,324 | 96 rec. | — | — | Samuel | 17 |
| NO Norway | — | 3,581△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 12K | Samuele | 5 |
Roughly 565K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 589). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German74K66%
- Italian24K21%
- English3.6K3%
- Portuguese1.9K2%
- Spanish1.7K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 73,908 | 66% |
| Italian | 23,539 | 21% |
| English | 3,573 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 1,867 | 2% |
| Spanish | 1,712 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Samuele is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Il suo nome è Dio
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1985–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Arturo Schwarzb. 1924ITnot in their usual nameItalian art historian (1924–2021)
- Samuele Papib. 1973ITItalian volleyball player
- Samuele Dalla Bonab. 1981ITItalian footballer
- Samuele Longob. 1992ITItalian footballer
- Samuele Battistellab. 1998ITItalian cyclist
- Samuele Birindellib. 1999ITassociation football player
- Samuele Mulattierib. 2000ITItalian association football player
- Samuele Ceccarellib. 2000ITItalian sprinter
- Samuele Riccib. 2001ITItalian association football player
- Samuele Vignatob. 2004ITItalian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 52 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2K | #18 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 329 | #27,122 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 291 | #6,765 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 224 | #3,853 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 136 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 109 | #33,256 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 105 | #2,006 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 96 | #2,000 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 86 | #8,517 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 72 | #6,277 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 72 | #27,690 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 68 | #43,024 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 179 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Samuele?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Samuele (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Samuele have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 565 thousand people bear Samuele in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled samuel.
- Where is Samuele most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Samuele is densest in Finland — about 1 in 257 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Samuele compared with other names?
- In Italy, Samuele is the 77th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.
- Is Samuele a male or female name?
- Samuele is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Samuele mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ebraico: 'Dio/il Signore ha ascoltato'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Samuele” — the 77th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.