Samwel
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Samwel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- KEKenya1 in 345◐
- TZTanzania1 in 513
- EGEgypt1 in 106K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈34 ●
- Sources
- 75 ●
- 1 in 375K ◐
across 3 countries
32K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Şamwel in TM Turkmenistan.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #61 | 83,489 | 11K rec. | — | 1 | Samwel | 61 |
| TZ Tanzania | #25 | 25,835 | 19K rec. | — | 1 | Samwel | 58 |
| US United States | — | 724 | 892 rec. | — | listed | Samwel | 75 |
| EG Egypt | — | 369 | 281 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 29 |
| IN India | — | 120 | 61 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | 106 | 105 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 79 | 36 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 65 | 51 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | 57 | 80 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | 43 | 42 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 29 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 41 | 43 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 8 |
| FR France | — | 33 | 41 rec. | — | — | Samwel | 18 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili103K92%
- English3.5K3%
- Arabic8011%
- Spanish6761%
- Greek5171%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 103,240 | 92% |
| English | 3,543 | 3% |
| Arabic | 801 | 1% |
| Spanish | 676 | 1% |
| Greek | 517 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Eusebio Samwel Kyandob. 1964TZTanzanian Roman Catholic bishop
- Samwel Mushai Kimanib. 1989KEKenyan paralympic athlete
- Samwel Imetab. 1998Kenyan athletics competitor (born 1998)
- Samuel Cheboleb. 2001KEnot in their usual nameKenyan athlete
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 19 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Samwel?
- We estimate roughly 34 people bear Samwel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Samwel have the most bearers?
- Samwel is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled samwel.
- How common is Samwel compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Samwel is the 61st most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Samwel a male or female name?
- Samwel 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, “Samwel” — the 61st most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.