Given name
Samuela
“asked of God”·“God has heard”
Samuela is a feminine form of Samuel. Suggested meanings include “God has heard” and “asked of God.” The exact derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Hebrew use, Samuela carries the interpretation “asked of God.” Samuela is a feminine form of Samuel. Suggested meanings include “God has heard” and “asked of God.” The exact derivation is not certain.
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Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
Samuela is used as a feminine counterpart of Samuel. Samuela is a feminine form of Samuel. The shared background comes through Samuel: One explanation understands the name as God hearing a parent’s prayer. Another connects it with a shortened Hebrew phrase meaning “asked of God,” echoing Hannah’s words about her son.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Samuela is a feminine form of Samuel. The history of Samuel gives this family its wider story. In the Bible, Samuel is called by God while still a child and later becomes a prophet who anoints Saul and David. Samuel was especially favoured by English and American Puritans and later Nonconformists.
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Samuela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 93
- 48 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,760 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,760 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 355 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Samuela’s family of names
Samuela is a feminine form of Samuel. Samuela has a related form in Samella. In Hawaiian usage, Samuela has a conventional equivalent in the English form Samuel.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Samuela has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
4 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Samuellavariant · Hungarian
- Samellavariant
- Samuellevariant
- Samuellvariant
- Sameliavariant
- Samiellavariant
- Samillevariant
- Samillavariant
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Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Samuela
- Samuela ComolaItalian biathleteborn 1998
- Samuela KautogaFijian footballerborn 1987
- Samuela VulaFijian footballerborn 1984
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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