Samuil

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Samuil is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Russianization of Samuel ("the Lord hears").

rarermore common
  • AMArmenia1 in 118◐
  • USUnited States1 in 589
  • FRFrance1 in 704

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.3M ●

across 17 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
141 ●

96K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 257 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

СамвелCyrillic · Russian●123K records
SamvelLatin · Armenian●6.5K records
ᲡამველGeorgian · Georgian●3.3K records
ՍամվելArmenian · Armenian●1.5K records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Samvel in FR France, ES Spain, FI Finland and 6 more, Самвел in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Samuel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and Სამველ in GE Georgia.

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●

Russianization of Samuel ("the Lord hears").

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Samuil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—565,090△9.3K rec.1 in 589565KSamuel141
BR Brazil—522,131△3 rec.1 in 405522KSamuil6
RU Russia#261134,33563K rec.—#427Самвел136
FR France—96,380△1K rec.1 in 70496KSamvel86
ES Spain—61,517△245 rec.1 in 81362KSamvel26
SE Sweden—22,803△27 rec.1 in 44723K—8
EC Ecuador—22,3260 rec.1 in 75722K—6
FI Finland—21,683△4 rec.1 in 25727KSamvel2
CZ Czechia—16,316△7 rec.1 in 65616KSamvel12
UA Ukraine#37212,76513K rec.—listedСамвел23
PL Poland—7,432△9 rec.1 in 5.2K7.4KSamvel13
AM Armenia#125,7033.5K rec.—272Samvel69

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●

  • English2.2K27%
  • Russian1.2K15%
  • Ukrainian1.2K15%
  • Bulgarian81110%
  • Polish7379%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,19527%
Russian1,23315%
Ukrainian1,17615%
Bulgarian81110%
Polish7379%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Samuil is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name740 records spelled Samuil2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Samuił

  • a separate given name194 records spelled Samuil2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Russia

    Also written Šamuil

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

1800185019001950Samuel Polyakov, b. 1837Samuel Maykapar, b. 1867Samuil Samosud, b. 1884Samuil Agurskii, b. 1884Sholom Schwartzbard, b. 1886Samuil Marshak, b. 1887Samuil Feinberg, b. 1890Samuel Pokrass, b. 1897Walter Krivitsky, b. 1899Samuil Kaplan, b. 1921
  • Samuel Polyakovb. 1837BYnot in their usual nameRussian businessman
  • Samuel Maykaparb. 1867RUnot in their usual nameRussian composer (1867-1938)
  • Samuil Samosudb. 1884GESoviet music conductor (1884–1964)
  • Samuil Agurskiib. 1884BYBelarusian Communist and historian (1884–1947)
  • Sholom Schwartzbardb. 1886FRnot in their usual nameRussian-born Moldovan-French Yiddish poet of Jewish descent and anarchist (1886-1938)
  • Samuil Marshakb. 1887RURussian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
  • Samuil Feinbergb. 1890RURussian pianist and composer (1890–1962)
  • Samuel Pokrassb. 1897UAnot in their usual nameRussian composer (1897–1939)
  • Walter Krivitskyb. 1899USnot in their usual nameSoviet spy (1899-1941)
  • Samuil Kaplanb. 1921RUSoviet astronomer (1921-1978)

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 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Samuil
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020339#27,122
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—327#551
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026184#1,365
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—177#1,323
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—75#19,829
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—64#10,575
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—40#1,060
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—39#13,781
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,442
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#26,564
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202217#1,811
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#40,261

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 48 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Samuil?
We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Samuil (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
In which country does Samuil have the most bearers?
We estimate about 565 thousand people bear Samuil in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled samuel.
How common is Samuil compared with other names?
In Armenia, Samuil is the 12th most common given name of 3,604 given names recorded there.
Is Samuil a male or female name?
Samuil 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 Samuil mean?
Recorded meaning: Russianization of Samuel ("the Lord hears").
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Samuil” — the 12th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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