Given name

Samúel

Samúel is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Icelandic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Samúel comes from Hebrew.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Samúel’s family of names

In Icelandic usage, Samúel has a conventional equivalent in the English form Samuel.

Walk Samúel’s family in the name graph

SamúelSámuelSamuel

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Samúel has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.

Hebrew

1 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Samúel

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Samúel, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Hebrew

Sámal

Sámal is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in Faroese.

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>99% boys

Hebrew

Samlah

“robe”

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>99% boys

Hebrew

Segel

Segel is a surname from Hebrew.

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Hebrew

Manúel

“God is with us”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Sadoc

“righteous” · “just”

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>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Sabaoth

“collectives”

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>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Sabtah

“breaking through”

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>99% boys

Hebrew · Biblical

Sallai

“heaping up” · “highway making”

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>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Samúel’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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