Given name
Uel
“God has heard”·“asked of God”
In English use, Uel is a diminutive of Samuel. Suggested meanings include “God has heard” and “asked of God.” The exact derivation is not certain.
Original Hebrewאואל
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Uel is a diminutive 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
In English use, Uel is a diminutive of 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 English usage, Uel is a diminutive of Samuel. In English use, Uel is a diminutive 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.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In English use, Uel is a diminutive 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
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Uel appears in Ezra 10:34.
From biblical name research
Uel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 75
- 75 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 8 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 1939. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1918.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Uel’s family of names
In English usage, Uel is a diminutive of Samuel.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
See also 9
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
- Aiahshares a root
- Evishares a root
- Jezebelshares a root
- Ophirshares a root
- Spainshares a root
- Ichabodshares a root
- Bavvaishares a root
- Aiimshares a root
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