Given name & surname
Samuele
“God has heard”·“asked of God”
Samuele is a variant of Samuel. Suggested meanings include “God has heard” and “asked of God.” The exact derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Samuele is a variant of Samuel. Suggested meanings include “God has heard” and “asked of God.” The exact derivation is not certain.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Samuele is a variant of Samuel. Samuel comes from Hebrew Shemuel, with a long history in Jewish and Christian naming traditions.
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How it developed
Samuele is a variant 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 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Samuele is a variant 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.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Samuele through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 248
- 248 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 339 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.
Samuele’s family of names
In Italian usage, Samuele has a feminine form in Samuela. Samuele has a related form in Samuel. In Italian usage, Samuele has a conventional equivalent in the English form Samuel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Samuele has relatives in 4 languages.
2 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Samuele
- Samuele LongoItalian footballerborn 1992
- Samuele RicciItalian association football playerborn 2001
- Samuele PapiItalian volleyball playerborn 1973
- Samuele BersaniItalian singer-songwriter (born 1970)
- Samuele InácioItalian footballer (born 2008)
- Samuele CeccarelliItalian sprinterborn 2000
- Samuele Dalla BonaItalian footballerborn 1981
- Samuele MulattieriItalian association football playerborn 2000
- Samuele BattistellaItalian cyclistborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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