Given name
Samuil
“God has heard”·“asked of God”
In Russian use, Samuil shares an earlier linguistic root with Samuel. Suggested meanings include “God has heard” and “asked of God.” The exact derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Russian use, Samuil shares an earlier linguistic root with 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
In Russian use, Samuil shares an earlier linguistic root with Samuel. Samuel comes from Hebrew Shemuel, with a long history in Jewish and Christian naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Russian use, Samuil shares an earlier linguistic root with 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 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In Russian use, Samuil shares an earlier linguistic root with 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
Samuil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,494 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,494 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 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.
Samuil’s family of names
Samuil shares a linguistic root with Samuel. In Russian usage, Samuil is a transliteration of Самуил.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Samuil
- Samuil MarshakRussian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
- Samuil FeinbergRussian pianist and composer (1890–1962)
- Samuil SamosudSoviet music conductor (1884–1964)
- Samuil AgurskiiBelarusian Communist and historian (1884–1947)
- Samuel PolyakovRussian businessman1837–1888
- Samuil AlyoshinRussian author (1913–2008)
- Samuil BernsteinSoviet and Russian dialectologist (1911-1997)
- Samuil GalbergBaltic German sculptor (1787-1839)
- Samuil VainshteinRussian chess player (1894–1942)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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