Samvel
given name · Armenian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Samvel 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 Armenian and Georgian, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 141 ●
- 1 in 257 ◐
across 17 countries
recorded for this name
96K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Самвел in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Samuel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more, Samuil in BR Brazil, AT Austria, BG Bulgaria 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 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△ | 9.3K rec. | 1 in 589 | 565K | Samuel | 141 |
| BR Brazil | — | 522,131△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 405 | 522K | Samuil | 6 |
| RU Russia | #261 | 134,335 | 63K rec. | — | #427 | Самвел | 136 |
| FR France | — | 96,380△ | 1K rec. | 1 in 704 | 96K | Samvel | 86 |
| ES Spain | — | 61,517△ | 245 rec. | 1 in 813 | 62K | Samvel | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22,803△ | 27 rec. | 1 in 447 | 23K | — | 8 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,326 | 0 rec. | 1 in 757 | 22K | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 21,683△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 257 | 27K | Samvel | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 16,316△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 656 | 16K | Samvel | 12 |
| UA Ukraine | #372 | 12,765 | 13K rec. | — | listed | Самвел | 23 |
| PL Poland | — | 7,432△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 5.2K | 7.4K | Samvel | 13 |
| AM Armenia | #12 | 5,703 | 3.5K rec. | — | 272 | Samvel | 69 |
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●
- Armenian6.5K33%
- Georgian3.2K17%
- French1.5K8%
- Russian1.4K7%
- English1.3K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | 6,496 | 33% |
| Georgian | 3,216 | 17% |
| French | 1,549 | 8% |
| Russian | 1,413 | 7% |
| English | 1,318 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 11 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 12 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1993–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Samvel Safarianb. 1902AMSoviet architect (1902-1969)
- Samvel Tarverdyanb. 1939AMArmenian politician
- Samvel Khalatyanb. 1950AMArmenian playwright, prosaist and humorist
- Samvel Balasanyanb. 1954AMArmenian politician
- Samvel Babayanb. 1965AMArmenian general
- Samvel Khalatianresearcher in particle physics
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 789 | #14,777 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 254 | #1,100 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 246 | #1,067 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 167 | #10,406 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 150 | #5,262 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 48 | #1,368 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #15,030 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 38 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 38 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #14,282 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 34 | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 · 169 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Samvel?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Samvel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
- In which country does Samvel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 565 thousand people bear Samvel in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled samuel.
- How common is Samvel compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Samvel is the 12th most common given name of 3,604 given names recorded there.
- Is Samvel a male or female name?
- Samvel 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Samvel” — the 12th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.